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PaulK Member Posts: 17828 Joined: Member Rating: 2.3 |
The usual answer is that the calculations are off usually with an assertion tha5 it will happen in six months or a years time.
I wonder if she’ll ask the others how often the calculations have been off for them. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if it was well into double figures for some.
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caffeine Member (Idle past 1053 days) Posts: 1800 From: Prague, Czech Republic Joined:
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Explain that the calculations were off and that the rapture will occur at some future date. In fairness, she's said repeatedly that she might be wrong. There were no calculations involved - it's all just a case of frequency illusion since Faith has recently become interested in the Rapture.
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ringo Member (Idle past 441 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined:
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Percy writes:
In four hours when you realize you're still here, that everyone's still here, will you: Go silent on EvC and your blog so that everyone thinks you've been raptured. Assert that the rapture happened but allege a massive coverup.Explain that the calculations were off and that the rapture will occur at some future date.
And our geese will blot out the sun.
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Faith  Suspended Member (Idle past 1473 days) Posts: 35298 From: Nevada, USA Joined: |
It's 8:40 PM in Israel now, still the 10th, but past any time I would have expected the Rapture to occur. I can't really say it's completely over until Rosh Hashanah is completely over, which won't be until midnight at the end of the 11th in Israel, but the 10th has been the most likely day, so it "feels" over.
It's very disappointing because I've had so many signs that it would be very soon, and just yesterday I started paying attention to this one guy who showed calculations of phenomena that aren't going to occur again, such as the seventieth anniversary of Israel's statehood. Rosh Hashanah (otherwise known as Yom Teruah) is the most likely time because it's always on the "High Holy Days" that major events in God's plan have occurred and this is the next one in line. I'm not really sure how they come up with seven holy days, I'm only aware of Passover and Pentecost having been fulfilled, but five or seven, Rosh Hashanah is next in line, followed by Yom Kippur and the Feast of Tabernacles. Well, just to be exact the tenth won't be completely over until midnight Israel time which is about three hours from now, and the most far-out possibility still is midnight tomorrow night the 11th. ABE: And thank you, caffeine, for pointing out that I never said it was definitely going to occur now, I've always said it might not, and so has everybody else I've run across. People make calculations, we get signs and feelings, I saw where a couple kids had dreams about it and that sort of thing, but there is no way to know for sure. ABE: It WILL happen eventually of course because it's a prophecy, it has to happen some time. At least we can say we are watching, which is what we're commanded to do. Edited by Faith, : No reason given. Edited by Faith, : No reason given. Edited by Faith, : No reason given. Edited by Faith, : No reason given. Edited by Faith, : No reason given. Edited by Faith, : No reason given.
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Percy Member Posts: 22504 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 4.9 |
As the Rapture countdown continues toward midnight Israel time (plus or minus a day, week, century or millennium) I'm sure we're all wondering who will stay and who will go. We should keep in mind that there's nothing in the basic evangelical catechism about the kind of person you've been in this world - only belief matters.
--Percy
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Tangle Member Posts: 9514 From: UK Joined: Member Rating: 4.8 |
Percy writes: only belief matters. All those trillions of people who just got born in the wrong place. Seems a tad random.Je suis Charlie. Je suis Ahmed. Je suis Juif. Je suis Parisien. I am Mancunian. I am Brum. I am London.I am Finland. Soy Barcelona "Life, don't talk to me about life" - Marvin the Paranoid Android "Science adjusts it's views based on what's observed.Faith is the denial of observation so that Belief can be preserved." - Tim Minchin, in his beat poem, Storm.
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PaulK Member Posts: 17828 Joined: Member Rating: 2.3
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quote: We’re still waiting for Tyre to be reduced to a bare rock, never to be rebuilt. That one’s more than 2500 years late.
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Phat Member Posts: 18348 From: Denver,Colorado USA Joined: Member Rating: 1.0 |
Not necessarily. I think that if belief were the criteria it would be graded on more than a simple creed or statement.
Chance as a real force is a myth. It has no basis in reality and no place in scientific inquiry. For science and philosophy to continue to advance in knowledge, chance must be demythologized once and for all. —RC Sproul "A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." —Mark Twain " ~"If that's not sufficient for you go soak your head."~Faith You can "get answers" by watching the ducks. That doesn't mean the answers are coming from them.~Ringo
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Coragyps Member (Idle past 763 days) Posts: 5553 From: Snyder, Texas, USA Joined: |
We’re fifteen minutes overdue.....
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Percy Member Posts: 22504 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 4.9 |
Tangle writes: All those trillions of people who just got born in the wrong place. Seems a tad random. Poor Asia - little relief from their overpopulation problem. Tennessee has the highest percentage of white evangelicals, 47%. That state's population will just be devastated. And poor Trump - the evangelical part of his base will just disappear. Couldn't the Rapture have waited until after the midterms? And the real estate market - how will it handle all those many buildings with high towers on the front soon to be available? --Percy
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Tangle Member Posts: 9514 From: UK Joined: Member Rating: 4.8 |
Phat writes: Not necessarily. I think that if belief were the criteria it would be graded on more than a simple creed or statement. YOU think. You want your idea of god to be the correct one because you think he's nicer than that. Faith thinks the opposite. Don't you think that you're just making this stuff up to make yourself feel better?Je suis Charlie. Je suis Ahmed. Je suis Juif. Je suis Parisien. I am Mancunian. I am Brum. I am London.I am Finland. Soy Barcelona "Life, don't talk to me about life" - Marvin the Paranoid Android "Science adjusts it's views based on what's observed.Faith is the denial of observation so that Belief can be preserved." - Tim Minchin, in his beat poem, Storm.
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Faith  Suspended Member (Idle past 1473 days) Posts: 35298 From: Nevada, USA Joined: |
Last I heard China has thirty something million Christians, could even be 67 million. Of course that is a drop in the bucket of their population but it's a substantial number nevertheless. And South Korea has a single church that has a million members. I don't know how many Christians there are in Vietnam but the autobiography, "Fire Road" by Kim Fook, who is a Christian, was the last book read on my Christian radio station. She was the little girl who was famously photographed running naked in the street after being burned by napalm in 1972. I didn't hear the early part of the reading about her conversion but I think it was a Vietnamese man who converted her.
So there are quite a few Christians in Asia.
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Faith  Suspended Member (Idle past 1473 days) Posts: 35298 From: Nevada, USA Joined: |
Yes, September 10th has come and gone in Israel.
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Tangle Member Posts: 9514 From: UK Joined: Member Rating: 4.8 |
Last I heard Catholics are the largest Christian group in the world. But I guess they don't count.
Je suis Charlie. Je suis Ahmed. Je suis Juif. Je suis Parisien. I am Mancunian. I am Brum. I am London.I am Finland. Soy Barcelona "Life, don't talk to me about life" - Marvin the Paranoid Android "Science adjusts it's views based on what's observed.Faith is the denial of observation so that Belief can be preserved." - Tim Minchin, in his beat poem, Storm.
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Tangle Member Posts: 9514 From: UK Joined: Member Rating: 4.8
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Faith writes: Yes, September 10th has come and gone in Israel. Perhaps you meant ruptured?Je suis Charlie. Je suis Ahmed. Je suis Juif. Je suis Parisien. I am Mancunian. I am Brum. I am London.I am Finland. Soy Barcelona "Life, don't talk to me about life" - Marvin the Paranoid Android "Science adjusts it's views based on what's observed.Faith is the denial of observation so that Belief can be preserved." - Tim Minchin, in his beat poem, Storm.
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