Question about the Rapture.

[TheGunShoj]

Unless you can theoretically define what it'd be like to be a soul (or conditioned energy) free from this physical world, no longer affected by chemicals in the brain, thoughts, feelings, etc, It's rather interesting that you assume such a thing is terrible. It wouldn't be like you forgot them.. it'd be more like your so wise/intelligent that the fact that they were your earthen family would just be irrelevant.

It would help if we could prove the existence of a soul first, before making claims about how it would act once separated from it's body. Let's start there.

 

[Muffled]

I don't think that during the actual event it would be that easy for you to dismiss your family being sent to a lake of fire. If it is, you're pretty heartless.

I don't believe in forming dependency attachments. I love the people that I am with and that is all I can do. It is all God can do as well.

I beleive it isn't easy and I pray it won't happen that way for them. I believe when it is crunch time they will accept Jesus.

 

[Thruve]

It would help if we could prove the existence of a soul first, before making claims about how it would act once separated from it's body. Let's start there.

It would help if you could prove that a soul doesn't exist before making such a counter argument. Let's start there instead.

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

According to the current Pope, if your atheist family does good works, they get to go too.

WooHoo!

That's not what he said. Atheism is a sin, as always.

Anyway, the Left Behind sort of Rapture is peculiar to a certain form of Protestantism and is based on a misinterpretation of verses from 1st Thessalonians. Catholics, the Orthodox and mainline Protestants don't believe in it. At the Tribulation, the Church does not get a Get Out of Suffering Free card. We never have, never will.

 

[TheGunShoj]

It would help if you could prove that a soul doesn't exist before making such a counter argument. Let's start there instead.

Sorry, that's not how burden of proof works. The person making the positive assertion that a soul exists must prove it, not the disbeliever.

Do you believe in alien abductions? If not, is that because you disproved every single one of them? And is it your responsibility to debunk every single one of them?

 

[Thruve]

Sorry, that's not how burden of proof works. The person making the positive assertion that a soul exists must prove it, not the disbeliever.

Do you believe in alien abductions? If not, is that because you disproved every single one of them? And is it your responsibility to debunk every single one of them?

Hey you, come closer. (A bit closer..). The circus is that way --->
I heard an announcement just now..
The circus just left town.. So Why are you still here?

Luv ya

 

[nash8]

The scenario:

You are a christian when the rapture happens. Your family, however, are atheists. You know you're going to heaven.

But what about your family? what happens to them?

Rapture's already happened... . If you don't know it already happened then your "left behind". And even some of us that know it already happened are "left behind". Still mad I missed my chance to get up outta here, but I guess I was destined to help those in need lol?

 

[TheGunShoj]

Hey you, come closer. (A bit closer..). The circus is that way --->
I heard an announcement just now..
The circus just left town.. So Why are you still here?

Luv ya

Nice red herring....I guess? Why don't you address what I actually said?

The responsibility to provide evidence rests on the shoulders of the person making the positive assertion.

If I said dragons exist, it is the default position for you to disbelieve until I have provided sufficient evidence for their existence. It is not your job to either prove or disprove that they exist.

Furthermore, what use would it be to talk about what attributes dragons have and how they interact with humans in the physical world if we haven't a shred of evidence that they even exist to begin with?

That's the situation we find ourselves in within this thread.

 

[Omtita]

The scenario:

You are a christian when the rapture happens. Your family, however, are atheists. You know you're going to heaven.

But what about your family? what happens to them?

The rapture is a fairly young doctrine, only about 200 years old and not very well known outside of the U.S. The Bible doesn't teach a rapture. The Bible specifically says that flesh and blood can't enter heaven and that heaven was made for God and the spirit creatures, while Earth was made for man to live forever in peace upon it.

The meek inherit what? Heaven? No.

 

[Sonofason]

This is the most ridiculous thing I have ever read. There is no genetic cause behind behaviour.

This simply is not true.
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