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Thread #93508   Message #3531934
Posted By: Bill D
29-Jun-13 - 10:07 PM
Thread Name: BS: Is the Rapture Underway???
Subject: RE: BS: Is the Rapture Underway???
"...but hopefully you would not lump my lovingly seeking to share my faith together with suicide bombers ..."

Pete... it is not about how nice & pretty YOUR faith is, compared to THEIR faith. It is about the sound basis on which anyone accepts ANY scriptural guide as authoritative. That is why it is called faith/belief. If God (and Muslims claim they worship the same 'god' as Christians, but have different prophets/messiahs) is 'all-powerful' and wants a specific truth to be clear to everyone, I would think he/she/it could clarify it to ALL, and end this doubt and guessing and killing!
Granting humans the mind to understand & analyze, yet allowing pain & suffering & discord & confusion does not fit MY idea of an omnipotent Being.

We have a lot of historical evidence as to why humans created religious stories to explain their wonder about Being... and when we thought the Earth was flat & was the center of the universe because we had no FACTS, it was understandable so many different religions developed so many different stories....including guesses about what would happen "at the end". The 'rapture' is just one guess among many. The reason so many...even myself... dispute your stance is that your current 'belief' refuses to treat new discoveries in science as useful unless you can make them fit your interpretation of one scripture among many.
   Some treat you as if you are 'having me on' and 'taking the piss' (not phrases I use in the US...but I get the point.) I have no doubt you are honest & serious... but I also see many problems with the system that thinks like that.... and I really worry about what would happen IF your system gained wide acceptance. Sorry...but that's how it is.