Your die throwing is not related to Scripture and Aug. 7, 2022 is not a prediction of the end of the world but when Jesus steps down on the mount of olives.
I'm not talking about the end of the world, but instead your method of determining probabilities and calling miraculous is no different from my die throwing example.
To put it another way, try to imagine the odds of your existence, the odds that you were born with your particular gender, genetic code, in the city where you were born, born to parents with a particular genetic recipe, born with a particular blood type, etc. Its actually kinda fun to put all those probabilities down on paper, you might find that odds of you being
you are infinitesimally small, and if they're so unlikely, then how could you possibly exist without a miracle?
The trick is understanding that all other probabilities were equally likely, there's no good reason to presume an paranormal force is selecting some outcomes over others.
We all just happen to be fortunate to live in the day and age to confirm the Rev. 6.12 earthquake 2010-11.
Take a moment to actually
read about earthquakes. The earthquake in Haiti was magnitude 7 and killed 50-85K people, its nowhere near the strongest or even the deadliest in history. There are about
over a million earthquakes per year, about 20 or so which are strong or stronger than the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. In other words, earthquakes of this type happen back to back, almost every year for the whole history of planet.
Please also read about
confirmation bias. To put it bluntly, people have a tendency to focus on evidence which supports their belief, ignore evidence that negates. In your particular case, you have a view that Rapture is going to occur, and you're trying to look for evidence to support the belief no matter how specious, you will discount evidence to the contrary (e.g. the 100% failure rate of 10s of 1000s of predictions for centuries, the billions of irrelevant earthquakes in history that are no more remarkable from the 2010 quake).
You are in no better position than anyone else in history who has made the
exact same predictions you have, you're not the only person who has ever lived to be absolutely convinced that
your date is correct and
all the others are wrong, you're not the first person in history to state categorically with 100% sincerity that your prediction will happen. And you won't be the first person in history whose prediction fails, or the first person backtracks and claims an error in your calculation, or the first person who "recalculates" a later date, or the first person whose recalculated date fails.
And have it up on the NASA website the Nov. 3 long H3 solar eclipse - 4th since Christ.
There are many really interesting astrological phenomenon which happen once in a few hundred or thousand years. What makes those eclipses special, besides their rarity of course?
When the Dome of the Rock is torn down around 2014 and a couple million people vanish Sept. 14, 2015 perhaps you will reconsider and give your life to Christ.
You are aware that there have been 10s of 1000s of people for centuries with just as much faith in their own predictions as you are in yours, and every one of those people thinks they are right and you are wrong, and every one of those people is
in fact wrong.
And you want me to believe that
you, who have nothing more or less profound than anything ever said before, have access to knowledge that no other person in history ever though of? That
you are the first person to attach paranormal meaning to natural disasters and, unlike a million others before, actually
get it right? Really?
Really?
Please, can you at least do this for me: live out your life as if the Rapture wouldn't happen. I've seen it myself where people are "Rapture Ready", they believe its going to happen so soon that they have no interest in going to school, saving up money to put their kids through college, they lose contact with their friends and family, they sell their house, their car, everything they own, they become absolutely obsessed -- and then they're **********. Not only did they throw away their entire standard of living, but all that time waiting for nothing, when they could have developed hobbies in writing, or spent time with friends, earned a degree in college, actually
lived a life rather than sitting through it. People seriously throw away decades of potentially productive life waiting for the Rapture to occur.
Please, at least concede that there is a tiny, maybe 0.00001%, that you've made an error, so in the totally-unlikely-not-gonna-happen-could-never-think-it-definitely-not-in-bajillion-years chance that your wrong, you don't totally **** up your life when your date comes and goes without incident.
