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dballance

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10. So if God and Jesus are these all-knowing controlling beings?

Mon Sep 17, 2012, 07:34 PM

Sep 2012

Why do they care about this one little place, Temple on the Mount? Won't God be able to rapture all their follower's without them being there?

Sure symbology is nice but if you are Lord of the Universe it seems a little egotistical to expect your followers from around the world to travel to Israel and be at either Megiddo or the Temple Mount for battle. Once you rapture a lot of the airline pilots and ship captains that's going to be tough.

Okay, so the temple was built there. It was a display of worship and pride as it should have been.

Fast forward to current times. I don't know about you but my Southern Baptist minister always taught us God was not found in the building. He was found in the hearts of people who came together there to worship. They were the people who put God in the building.

Yep, that is a whole culturally different thought concept than when the temple was built. I know that.

But it is 2012.

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Waiting for Armageddon - Evangelical Documentary by [View all] patrice Sep 2012 OP

Reference to previous DU discussion: patrice Sep 2012 #1

Waiting for Godot Blue Owl Sep 2012 #2

Interesting that you should mention Beckett, because one of these pastors mentions patrice Sep 2012 #4

I watched part of it earlier, hard to get through &very disturbing sasha031 Sep 2012 #3

VERY death cultish!!! Maybe even pathological. nt patrice Sep 2012 #5

no doubt their pathological sasha031 Sep 2012 #7

That bit about the "righteous" being ready really freaks this old patrice Sep 2012 #8

and horrible cruel & selfish sasha031 Sep 2012 #11

Delight. You're right, sasha, it is like a physical addiction to self gratification. patrice Sep 2012 #12

oh man! FirstLight Sep 2012 #6

I can never figure out where they think Jesus went. In their theology, he's God, right? i.e. always patrice Sep 2012 #9

So if God and Jesus are these all-knowing controlling beings? dballance Sep 2012 #10

One of the absolutely finest persons I have ever known is Southern Baptist. She loves The Bible too patrice Sep 2012 #13

The whole Rapture thing... jeepnstein Sep 2012 #14

There's another way to look at it. SarahM32 Sep 2012 #16

The Actual Prophecies of Jesus vs "Christian" Myths (like the "Rapture," Armageddon, etc.) SarahM32 Sep 2012 #15