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Originally posted by jmdewey60
reply to post by CaptainNemo
I was brought up from birth being told Jesus was showing up to judge the world at any minute and now I am approaching 60 and it took me this long to realize that some people were reading things into the Bible that were just not there. So, I just spent fifty plus years ending up with nothing to show for my life as far as any substantial accomplishments or legacy or even kids seeing how it would have been just unnecessary torture for children who were going to have their life cut short as the world goes up in flames. So, what was that torment, again?
. . . I am done now . . .
It may be too painful for you to contemplate that you are not getting points from God for telling people the world is going to end.
People just have ridiculously short lives as it is and no one needs a suddenly ending world to realize they need to start doing what is right, now, and anyone who acts under thread of punishment are not really repentant anyway, so the info is useless.
edit on 25-1-2012 by jmdewey60 because: (no reason given)
I am not sorry that with all your years you have failed to overcome your affliction.
Originally posted by jmdewey60
reply to post by CaptainNemo
I am not sorry that with all your years you have failed to overcome your affliction.
My "affliction" was this idea taught to me where being peculiar is a mark that you are distinct from the "world", meaning people who do not seem odd, since they are "in conformity with the world". So you have this idea that your theology seeming out of place with mainstream Christianity is evidence towards you having the "truth" seeing how the rest of Christianity is being infiltrated and subverted by the evil beast religion.
When you are so brainwashed, you fail to stop to think that your peculiarity may be based on the fact that your religion is this anachronistic artifact from an age of naiveté in regards to claims about Bible prophecy.
I did overcome this by clearing myself long enough from cultish type thinking to take another look at what I thought, after educating myself on these issues by reading more modern scholarship on them.
I don't feel bitter or resentful or hate God over this and if anyone, I would have to trace it back to my father's mother. I never understood, back when I was young, what the source of friction was between my mother and her but now I think I can understand where the problem came from. My father's mother died maybe ten years ago and I could see how after that, he completely bailed out from the church he brought us up in, under this matriarchal ever watchful eye.
So I can resolve these inner conflicts and they don't bother me but I now all of a sudden see what is right clearly and I do not exactly have a fear of being wrong because I think it is better to be slightly wrong following your own searching than to be really wrong by just passively taking in wholesale predigested ideology as if not asking questions was somehow a virtue.
edit on 26-1-2012 by jmdewey60 because: (no reason given)
So spiritual wise I have my proof that there is a God and a devil many times over.
I have alienated myself from a lot of people and I am a loner.
Originally posted by lonewolf19792000
reply to post by sacgamer25
I know what you are saying but be careful when you say the number of people who go to heaven. The bible says that some will be taken prior to the tribulation. It says those that are left will go through many horrible plagues, but it does not say they will not go to heaven. We can’t know who will come out of the tribulation cleansed by the blood of the lamb and who will be cast into the lake of the fire.
Mathew 7:13 Enter in at the narrow gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leads to destruction, and many there be who go in there:
Matthew 7:14 Because narrow is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leads unto life, and few there be that find it
Seems to me like Matthew is saying there will not be many that find it...hm....guess that blows your universalist doctrine that all roads lead to heaven out of the water. In fact, Matthew is saying there's going to be an overabundance of people in hell.
Ach! Wow! Guess that also means God isn't as "all loving" of a greek pagan god of love Eros as you think he is. All loving gods tolerate wickedness, he does not and because Jesus the Christ is God, neither does he tolerate wickedness. I believe in which case Jesus would say "go and sin no more" and not "go and sin as much as you want".
edit on 25-1-2012 by lonewolf19792000 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by autowrench
reply to post by odinson
I do not like the word, or the Christian concept of the word either. The vision of a lightly tanned, brown haired Christ sitting on a silver cloud is nothing more that a concept, and a very large leap of faith. Read the book, Christ never said he was coming back like that.
We are well versed on Blue Beam, so I don't have to mention that, right?
Being "caught up" could have multiple meanings.
Source
catch·ing, noun, adjective verb (used with object)
1. to seize or capture, especially after pursuit: to catch a criminal; to catch a runaway horse.
2. to trap or ensnare: to catch a fish.
3. to intercept and seize; take and hold (something thrown, falling, etc.): to catch a ball; a barrel to catch rain.
4. to come upon suddenly; surprise or detect, as in some action: I caught him stealing the pumpkin.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I have no desire to be captured by anyone, even Christ. How would I, or any really know it was in fact the Christ? Did he not warn of things like this?
"And then if any man shall say to you, Lo, here is Christ; or, lo, he is there; believe him not."
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
“Then, if a man shall say to you, 'Look, here is The Messiah, and 'Look, he is going there', you should not believe him.”
So, in essence, anything that even sounds, or looks like the popular Christian description of a nice easy ride up to Heaven on a silver cloud with your Godman is out of the question, even if it happens like that, simply because of the warning, and Inner Knowledge.
Trust in this. Humanity will never, ever be destroyed. Humanity will always exist. Humanity goes a whole lot farther than people think.
Anyone who thinks Humanity stops here on Earth is only fooling themselves. Humanity, in it's various forms, exists all over the known Universe, and beyond.
Earth has a life cycle, like everything on Earth has a life cycle. Every so often, I think every 26,000 to 38,0000 years, the poles shift, and the world turns over, spilling the seas out of their beds, sinking mountains way below water level, and rising what was beneath the sea to above, destroying, and burying everything that Humanity has built during this cycle.
It will take Planet Earth near 1000 Earth years to regain the ability to sustain complex life, and after that, humans will begin to incarnate upon Earth again, for the Fifth Time, according to some.
For most of Earth 3D Humanity, the transition itself will be fairy easy, (as easy as dropping dead) and the Afterlife will easily be adhered to for most. It is a Nexus of Energy, and it feeds off your human desires, and provides what you want to see, hear, and touch.
I think it will be a lot like what Picard experienced in this film short from "Generations."
Watch the whole short for an idea of what I am attempting to get across here. You can stay as long as you like, and leave anytime, as long as you have a destination in mind. Time is not a constant, and Space is a Fabric. The Carbon Based Human Body is a bio-mechanical machine, the true Spirit is a ball of energy that sits on a pedestal within the brain, and automatically controls over many, many sequences and nerve impulses.
Source
Your body is pretty amazing. At any given point you have many biological processes going on -- circulatory, digestive, brain & central nervous systems and more. Learn about these body systems as well as the eye, ears, nose and throat.
At night, when your body is sleeping, this energy ball exits the body and travels all over the Universe. Once one become fully aware of this, and can travel in a concious manner, it all becomes clear.
Originally posted by jmdewey60
reply to post by odinson
I don't know who you are or where you live or how old you are, I'm just saying I got this end-of-the-world-right-now theory rammed down my throat from the beginning and being someone who wants to love God, thought I should believe all that since it was an integral part of my religion. It caused a lot of problems in my life that I would have been better off without. I see no good whatsoever in preaching apocalypse and we have enough real life disasters and wars to realize we are not going to live forever and we should seek God in the hope of a future resurrection and to live good lives so we are not resurrected to shame but to glory. Going around preaching this additional doom and gloom type stuff as a substitute to actual good works is a nice ticket to hell in my opinion.
Just because you didn't get satisfactuion in life doesn't mean others can't. It only take one to see all these posts and change themselves for the better and I will be satisfied that I did a jiob well done.
edit on 26-1-2012 by jmdewey60 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by jmdewey60
reply to post by CaptainNemo
I am not sorry that with all your years you have failed to overcome your affliction.
My "affliction" was this idea taught to me where being peculiar is a mark that you are distinct from the "world", meaning people who do not seem odd, since they are "in conformity with the world". So you have this idea that your theology seeming out of place with mainstream Christianity is evidence towards you having the "truth" seeing how the rest of Christianity is being infiltrated and subverted by the evil beast religion.
When you are so brainwashed, you fail to stop to think that your peculiarity may be based on the fact that your religion is this anachronistic artifact from an age of naiveté in regards to claims about Bible prophecy.
I did overcome this by clearing myself long enough from cultish type thinking to take another look at what I thought, after educating myself on these issues by reading more modern scholarship on them.
I don't feel bitter or resentful or hate God over this and if anyone, I would have to trace it back to my father's mother. I never understood, back when I was young, what the source of friction was between my mother and her but now I think I can understand where the problem came from. My father's mother died maybe ten years ago and I could see how after that, he completely bailed out from the church he brought us up in, under this matriarchal ever watchful eye.
So I can resolve these inner conflicts and they don't bother me but I now all of a sudden see what is right clearly and I do not exactly have a fear of being wrong because I think it is better to be slightly wrong following your own searching than to be really wrong by just passively taking in wholesale predigested ideology as if not asking questions was somehow a virtue.
edit on 26-1-2012 by jmdewey60 because: (no reason given)
I started a thread to do something like that, where I think there is more evil planned to perpetrate on the world by people in positions of power, so I put on the record that I think Romney will be the next president because I think I was warned by an angel that there was a secret apocalypse planned by the Mormons, where the ones who know about it are not allowed to talk about it.
. . . if I post everything that I see and things start happening, then they can look at my posts and see that . . .
Originally posted by autowrench
reply to post by odinson
So spiritual wise I have my proof that there is a God and a devil many times over.
May we all see this proof you say you have? Are the two Beings related in any way? Have both been questioned fully? What are their real names, exactly? Please, enlighten us.
Originally posted by jmdewey60
reply to post by odinson
I started a thread to do something like that, where I think there is more evil planned to perpetrate on the world by people in positions of power, so I put on the record that I think Romney will be the next president because I think I was warned by an angel that there was a secret apocalypse planned by the Mormons, where the ones who know about it are not allowed to talk about it.
. . . if I post everything that I see and things start happening, then they can look at my posts and see that . . .
I'm not trying to bust you for your theology so much as to show some concern for where your life may be headed and why you might feel the way you do.edit on 27-1-2012 by jmdewey60 because: (no reason given)
I made a thread on it recently and in it I linked to some earlier posts I made about this strange audio experience with this voice like someone in my bedroom that woke me up back twenty something years ago.
Can you elaborate please.?
I was recently reading about Romney, and his ancestral mormon past.
The last days started in 1988. There was a trumpet blast by an angel to mark the beginning of it and I was told ahead of time that this would happen, given the date for the occurrence. Not sure why I was told that exactly unless the angel knew that I was the type of person who would years later say something about it. I don't really know what the significance of it is other than I felt impressed twenty years later that the tribulation had begun, meaning that it began in 2008, twenty years after whatever it was that had begun earlier. This probably is completely meaningless to anyone other than myself but it puts me into a mindset of not thinking of the end as being something distant but right now.
SO well done.
Originally posted by Prezbo369
You guys do realize that the numerous predictions for the end of world over the past few thousand years have a 100% failure record?
Oh wait of course you do, you just think you're the ones who have gotten it right.........
Originally posted by NOTurTypical
The people in times past who set different dates never read their Bibles which say that no man, not even the Son knows when the timing of the Harpazo is.
. . . not even the Son knows when the timing of the Harpazo is.