So, now the end of the world is Oct 21st...LOL

[Innominate]

I mean, come October 21st, nothings going to happen, so he'll say December 21st. See my point?

Who's to say the rapture didn't happen and everyone left are the unrepentant sinners?  Few enough followed the literal word of the bible that it would be easy to miss them.

[Puma44]

I would not say it so negatively, or try not to......

this world makes it very difficult to believe and because of the atrocities that man has done in "god's" name makes it even harder.

Not an attempt to be negative.  Just a statement of observation.  The Bible is truth.  All humans, with the exception on one in the past, are imperfect.

[ink]

Not an attempt to be negative.  Just a statement of observation.  The Bible is truth.  All humans, with the exception on one in the past, are imperfect.

totally agree there 

I was just thinking how you said he was "ignorant"  which is an insult, and if we who believe want to help someone who may not, its not good to insult them.

 

[Innominate]

The Bible is truth.  All humans, with the exception on one in the past, are imperfect.

What about the people who wrote the books of the bible?  What about the committee members who decided what was canon and what wasn't?

How can you support slavery?

[dedalos]

totally agree there 

I was just thinking how you said he was "ignorant"  which is an insult, and if we who believe want to help someone who may not, its not good to insult them.

 

Finally, I get to disagree with Ink 

[dedalos]

What about the people who wrote the books of the bible?  What about the committee members who decided what was canon and what wasn't?

How can you support slavery?

  are you really going to try this?  Have you ever gotten any of them to say oups, my bad.  I've been fooled 

[Innominate]

are you really going to try this?  Have you ever gotten any of them to say oups, my bad.  I've been fooled 

I guess I have a fascination with such straightforward doublethink.