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A question about the Rapture

Gastric ReFlux

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Last night, while perusing one of the threads over at Rapture Ready, I got to wondering. Many over at the board feel they will be bodily assumed into heaven, leaving behind a pile of clothes.

So I got to wondering about an activity which wouldn't require clothing: Sex. Will God rapture those in the middle of rapturing themselves, so to speak? Also, what if one is a believer and one is an unbeliever? Will God rapture the believer and leave the unbeliever suddenly grasping air?

If both are raptured, will God let them finish their sexual coupling up in heaven? Or at that point, will they just not care, while basking in the warm glow of God?

Thanks in advance to any who might have answers, scriptual references will be a big bonus.
 
Rapture & airlines

I once heard that there are some airlines in the USA that don't permit airliners to have an all-christian flight crew just in case.

Purlease, somebody tell me this isn't true....
 
bigfig said:
That rapture business....it is a big hoax created by a man named Scofield. Chruches in the old days did not teach this rapture nonsense. Can you imagine what people would do if they started geting sucked into outerspace, their legs flailing? They would either die of a heart attack or poop their pants.
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That would explain why their pants are to be left behind :roll:.

Hans
 
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That rapture business....it is a big hoax created by a man named Scofield. Chruches in the old days did not teach this rapture nonsense. Can you imagine what people would do if they started geting sucked into outerspace, their legs flailing? They would either die of a heart attack or poop their pants.
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That would explain why their pants are to be left behind
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Ewww...I'd better get an emergency rapture umbrella.
 
I have observed a "conversation" of sorts between bumper stickers -- saw one once that said something like, "In case of Rapture, this car will be driverless"....and saw another one another time (which I liked better) which said something like, "After the Rapture, can I have your car?"
 
(I had to post those quips, but I do have something more substantial to say:)

I read the beginning of the first "Left Behind" novel, and realized that the most bothersome element is that the authors assume that anyone who would be left behind after The Rapture would have no idea what had happened. In other words, they assume that the idea of the rapture is so compelling that anyone who has heard about it would necessarily believe it.

And I'd have to say that there are plenty of individuals who are living proof that that ain't so.
 
Vim Razz said:
Right, I mean what caring and compasionate individual wouldn't find a movement that leads people to cheer and applaud at the news of other's misfortune to be so overwhelmingly compelling? ummmm... right?

/sigh....

Page after page, thread after thread over there.

Disturbing.
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d00d, there's nothing quite so heartwarming as Apocolypse and the condemnation of all the non-believers to eternal fiery torment.

Gives me a warm and fuzzy feeling. Maranatha!
 
It's been my experience that blood is often accompanied by pain. I think I'll take my chances by staying intact.
 
Gastric ReFlux said:
Last night, while perusing one of the threads over at Rapture Ready, I got to wondering. Many over at the board feel they will be bodily assumed into heaven, leaving behind a pile of clothes.

So I got to wondering about an activity which wouldn't require clothing: Sex. Will God rapture those in the middle of rapturing themselves, so to speak? Also, what if one is a believer and one is an unbeliever? Will God rapture the believer and leave the unbeliever suddenly grasping air?

If both are raptured, will God let them finish their sexual coupling up in heaven? Or at that point, will they just not care, while basking in the warm glow of God?

Thanks in advance to any who might have answers, scriptual references will be a big bonus.
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It's too long to re-print here, but if you get a Bible and turn to I Corinthians chapter 15 (aka known as the resurrection chapter), it includes a description at about verse 50 which describes something like the Rapture Ready people talk about.
 
Looks like rapture nuts believe in G.B. Shaw's conception of heaven, where they will stay forever bored out of their minds, staying only because they think they must deserve it.
 
I wonder if they think the excessive uses of worshipping smilies will please jesus that much more to guarantee their spot in heaven. :rolleyes:
 
Gastric ReFlux said:
So I got to wondering about an activity which wouldn't require clothing: Sex. Will God rapture those in the middle of rapturing themselves, so to speak? Also, what if one is a believer and one is an unbeliever? Will God rapture the believer and leave the unbeliever suddenly grasping air?
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I think the general consensus in the religious community on this question is that true believers don't debase themselves conjugating with "inferior" peoples. :p
 
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Batman Jr. said:
I think the general consensus in the religious community on this question is that true believers don't debase themselves conjugating with "inferior" peoples. :p
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That's a good point. I've seen some sites advise not to conjugate with pagans and such, so that'll help God out from having to make a decision of whether or not to hold a Rapture whilst people are having sex.

I think this one smiley is showing a pissed-off Jesus coming back to smite the unbelievers.

:k:
 
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