@tovi_lord@joshwhitlatch The Roman translated the Bible to Latin so that they could read it, thats the only reason the word "rapture" is used today.. from an old translation of the Bible.
@tovi_lord@joshwhitlatch Why would Orthodox speak of the rapture if they don't speak Latin at all??
You shouldn't expect them to speak of the rapture, they would use the word Harpazo, the original word, meaning caught up and gathered together
@tovi_lord@joshwhitlatch yep, you have to pursue the truth the hard way. This is why I follow apollogists who defend faith in all directions not just inbetween varying doctrines.
@tovi_lord@joshwhitlatch this is an appeal to authority of people still. there is nothing stopping ancient church authorities (people) from having blind spots regarding prophecy
@joshwhitlatch it's in the bible. People that say it's not are simply wrong. Rapture's root language is latin and they are reading an English Bible while using a Greek study tools, totally missing the word Harpazo = Rapturo.
@5PointBaptist@RQ_Spartan you might get brownie point w/ God for not being in the harlot of babylon, but to make friends with their enemy, the beast system would be a terrible false dilemma to fall into.
@5PointBaptist@RQ_Spartan You still don't get it, "the-law-of-Moses" is not biblical it comes from medieval kabbalic jewish teachings about how to enforce law in a post messianic world that is fully controlled by them.
@HansFiene one of my earliest memories as probably a very young 2-3 year old is seeing some baby and thinking and feeling strongly, "I hate that baby and I don't know why, I just do"
Atheists make many claims. Atheism has no home without naturalism. Which is the ridiculous belief that everything that exists must obey the arbitrary requirement that it be universally observable and understood or measured.
Without evidence or reason, atheist’s judge everyone who do not accept that every carefully balanced fabric of reality have no meaningful origin. It MUST have the origin of NOTHING. YOUR god is nothing, a very impressive nothing that you refuse to be impressed by.
You go further to pick only on religious people’s personal experiences with the supernatural and you ignore and sometimes join in with occult supernaturalism, somehow forgetting your appeal to naturalism. You might accept witchcraft, ghosts, aliens. Why? Because those things don’t condemn you by their own authority.
@Tsar_Martyr The first photonegative image is of Jesus and there is no historical equivalent nor even any respectable modern reproduction.
I take xrays for a living. There is movement in this image of the hands, possibly the mouth too, as the teeth can be seen.
Most people apply to a stereotype, because most people are sheep. There are typical atheists as you are. there are typical religious people of which I am not. There has never been a church to which I have attended that I have liked. There are very few groups of Christians that I have sincere gratitude for. Maybe half the SDA's out there, I do very much like, though I am not one of them, I am one of the wild ones.