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Atheist Penelope
Delirium:
Well, not exactly, most of those who believe in the Rapture believe it will be seperate from his actual Second Coming, after the Tribulation. The Premillennial Dispensationists, at least, believe that first Jesus will come to sweep up the Real True Christians to Heaven, then seven years of God pouring out his wrath on the earth while the Antichrist rules it, the Jesus comes back for good, dumps all the non-RTC souls into hell, then rules the earth forever and ever from a giant golden Borg Cube. That's all you really need to know about it, there's no sense in wasting further time on it, and it'll never make sense to you anyways.
Is it cold in here?:
Adult conversions, hmm -- will Pennelope convert back, like C.S. Lewis did?
Delirium:
I should only hope not. C.S. Lewis only converted back because he failed logic forever.
KeepACoolin:
A.) I do not believe in a pre-tribulation rapture. There is no evidence in scripture for it, anywhere.
B.) I don't see how you can claim that C.S. Lewis can "fail logic forever" when it is clear that atheism itself requires a leap past logic: the only position that can be 100% based on logic is agnosticism, as it is impossible to ever disprove the existence of God (how exactly would you go about proving that there can be no invisible, incorporeal being whose existence is independent of the material universe?) and probably just as impossible to ever prove that He does exist. Essentially, the only completely rational position to hold is agnosticism, with gradations in it- that is, you might be an agnostic who is virtually sure that there is a God, or an agnostic who is virtually sure that there isn't. Either of the absolute positions, theism or atheism, requires a step beyond logic. But I think that anything worth doing does. Don't get me wrong, I think atheism is, in itself, a better position to hold than agnosticism. But that is not because I believe it to be more rational.
C.) I like italics. You may have noticed.
cerement:
--- Quote from: KeepACoolin on 29 Aug 2009, 12:26 ---... as it is impossible to ever disprove the existence of God (how exactly would you go about proving that there can be no invisible, incorporeal being whose existence is independent of the material universe?) and probably just as impossible to ever prove that He does exist ...
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Unless we find a Babel fish ...
--- Quote from: Douglas Adams ---'Oh dear,' says God, 'I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.
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Just stay away from zebra crossings ...
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