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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-20-11 11:18 PM
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No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son but only the Father
Edited on Fri May-20-11 11:18 PM by LynneSin
Matthew 24:36

Seriously, why do these idiots ignore what Jesus said?
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Electric Monk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-20-11 11:20 PM
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1. It's a test. They fail.
Or, at least, that's what my burned toast told me.
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Vinnie From Indy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-20-11 11:23 PM
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2. +1
Very funny!
Cheers!
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-20-11 11:25 PM
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6. It's funny, they claim because Noah knew we can too
I spent about 20 minutes listening to the Family Radio Station today. I figured 'why not' let's here what these folks have to say. They claim a man who lived thousands of years before Jesus was their justification that we can know today when we will be raptured. Mind you after the floods Noah endured, God sent a message via the Rainbow stating that he would never destroy the earth like that again. Ironically today I saw a faint rainbow.

Made me realize these people are so full of shit.
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Warren DeMontague Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-20-11 11:43 PM
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12. My personal advice is to not spend too much time trying to wrap your brain around obvious bullshit.
It could give you a headache. It certainly does me.
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Fumesucker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-20-11 11:23 PM
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3. There's a hell of a lot more that either never read or can't remember Matthew 6:5
And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites : for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-20-11 11:29 PM
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8. That's another one of my favorites along with Matthew 19:24
"Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God."

You think the $25 million that Reverand Camping has amassed over the years will help pave his way to heaven??
http://worldrichestpeople.blogspot.com/2011/05/christian-radio-broadcaster-harold.html
:rofl:
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RandySF Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-20-11 11:24 PM
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4. Jesus is too liberal for a lot of Christians.
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Gregorian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-21-11 12:09 AM
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14. Haha.
That's good. And quite the truth.
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johnroshan Donating Member (333 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-20-11 11:24 PM
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5. Different interpretations I guess...
People interpret the bible in any way that suits their narrative.

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Renew Deal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-20-11 11:25 PM
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7. Because they are false prophets sent by Satan?
That's the biblical answer.
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salvorhardin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-20-11 11:29 PM
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9. You've got the wrong verse
You're thinking of Mark 24:36 which Camping uses, among others to "prove", by pointing out the contradiction with John 10:30, that the Biblical Jesus is actually Satan and thus all present day Christian churches are apostate.
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-20-11 11:39 PM
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10. Nope - right verse. Even Doonesbury quoted it today
Edited on Fri May-20-11 11:39 PM by LynneSin
http://bible.cc/matthew/24-36.htm

http://cdn.svcs.c2.uclick.com/c2/9d6fdf805e70012ee3bf00163e41dd5b?width=900.0
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salvorhardin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-21-11 12:07 AM
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13. Ah, I was thinking of Mark 13:32
But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark%2013:32&version=KJV
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Kievan Rus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-21-11 12:52 AM
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19. They're the same -- the Olivet Discourse
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Warren DeMontague Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-20-11 11:41 PM
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11. Same reason people insist on thinking the only good way to cook a unicorn is on a weber barbecue
some people get awfully specific about their flim-flammery.
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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-21-11 12:44 AM
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15. Interestingly, that line seems to contradict mainstream dogmas of the Trinity.
If God the Father knows when the 2nd Coming is going to happen but not Jesus they are not the same individual.
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-21-11 12:50 AM
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16. God works in mysterious ways.
:sarcasm:
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Xolodno Donating Member (310 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-21-11 02:32 PM
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23. Hence....
...why I'm a heretic according to the mainstream religions. I reject the Trinity Doctrine, you have to jump through a lot of interpretational hoops in the Bible and ignore many blatant statements by Christ to accept it.
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Kievan Rus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-21-11 12:51 AM
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17. Most of the Campingites have never read the Bible or don't understand it
I've been saying the exact same thing about Harold Camping and his followers for the past year. What part of "no man can know the day or the hour" don't they get?
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cleanhippie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-21-11 12:52 AM
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18. Because Jesus never said it?
:shrug:


Why is it lunacy to believe in the rapture but it is ok to believe that a man was literally resurrected from the dead?
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Imperialism Inc. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-21-11 01:15 AM
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20. I don't know what verses Camping is using but another problem is
the verse you quoted is in the Olivet Discourse and immediately follows this:

34 Truly I tell you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened.

So yeah, it says no one will know the time and place but it also clearly says it will happen before the people listening to Jesus died. It didn't so case closed really. This verse has been a major thorn in the sides of people trying to take the second coming stuff literally. It has been interpreted in many different ways in order to avoid coming to the obvious conclusion that, if Jesus said this, it was a failed prophecy.
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rusty fender Donating Member (442 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-21-11 02:06 PM
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22. Exactly! They totally ignore this part.
Even the Oxford Annotated Bible says that no one quite knows what Jesus meant by this, i.e., that the end will come during the Apostle's generation. It shows that not even Jesus was infallible because he predicted wrongly. If the Christianists would admit this, they would be admitting that Jesus is/was not divine.
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GeorgeGist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-21-11 01:48 PM
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21. Only an idiot would ...
pretend to know what Jesus said.
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