Why The Rapture Did Not Happen
By Shaun Kenney | Sunday, May 22nd, 2011 | Catch-All, SportsThe Write Side of My Brain has one answer.
May I suggest another equally plausible rationale as to why the Rapture (TM) did not occur as Harold Camping suggested it would?
Ooooh yeah! Thanks, Macho Man Randy Savage.
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Shaun Kenney
Shaun Kenney is the Chairman of the Fluvanna County Board of Supervisors, former Communications Director for the Republican Party of Virginia, and an active blogger since 2002. Shaun lives in Thomas Jefferson's backyard with his wife, six children, and a modest attempt at a farm in Kents Store, Virginia.
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15 Responses to "Why The Rapture Did Not Happen"
I don’t know, Shaun. I kind of think JC could kick out of the big elbow from the top rope
Some possible reasons that it didn’t happen:
-Jesus cancelled the Rapture because He finds those evangelical fundamentalists just as annoying as the rest of us do and didn’t want them in His house, either.
-Daylight Savings Time. Heaven is on standard time and by the time it was 6 PM there, everyone on Earth had given up and gone home.
-It happened, but no one noticed because Jesus only took married guy people. Who knew?
“…married gay people.”
Because everyone in heaven is a Union member and it wasn’t in the Contract.
Want to know why the rapture did not happen ? Read your Bible, not even the Angels in Heaven know the time of the rapture.
RB,
The Rapture is an invention of those who want to cheat death by ascending into Heaven without dying. Jesus didn’t come here to show us how to cheat death, He came to show us the way to salvation. His death on the cross is a lesson for all of us in what is required to escape this mortal life. The return of Jesus that is described in the New Testament is best viewed as a metaphor–Jesus returns to each of us at the hour of our death. And the day and time of that moment is unknown to each of us.
The concept of The Rapture is emblematic of the dichotomy of the human condition: everyone wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die.
For the first time I felt uncomfortable with the ridicule of a apocalyptic prophesy. Mr. Camping certainly deserves the mocking but this time (more than others) it appears to extend to Christianity and even Christ himself. Unnecessary.
I was in the Air Force when another religious leader put a black eye on Christianity. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Jones
Since I wasn’t ashamed of the gospel, I was teased quite a lot. It’s sad when people follow people instead of the Lord. It leads to disappointment every time.
Thank God there was no kool-aid at the end of this one.
Kathy,
Or a mother ship. Thank you for your comment.
Apparently the Reverend Camping has not learned his lesson.
Quoting from a link I will provide below:
“But he is already examining new theories… including the possibility that God did not want mankind to suffer for five months, and so will end the world all at once on October 21 instead.”
Maybe he views rapture prophecy as being like baseball, you get three strikes before you’re out?
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1390268/Rapture-Harold-Camping-explains-wrong–says-God-bring-Rapture-OCTOBER-21.html#ixzz1NH8MYdWt
LD-At this point, why would anybody bother to give this fraud’s predictions any publicity?
Steve,
Because he has 180 radio stations that are going to get his point of view out there whether you personally listen to them or not. My understanding is that the Board of Directors of AFA (American Family Association) might try to reign him in, however this might be difficult seeing as how he is one of the founders of AFA.
I am going to double post.
Do you know why I do not worry about Judgement Day? Because the end of the world comes to each of us when we draw our last breath. When the end comes and you float upwards, it is my belief that you are going to meet someone holding a mirror and asking you to look back on your life and judge yourself.
It is my hope that the one holding the mirror is Jesus. It is my hope that God will show me mercy. Perhaps if Jesus is the one holding the mirror, he will take it down after I have stared at it long enough. If God does not provide me with such mercy, I can not survive self judgement.
And I don’t worry about Judgment Day because the end of the world isn’t going to happen for another 5 billion years or so when the sun swells and swallows the inner planets.
Steve,
Perhaps you are as confident as the dinosaurs were?
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