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Post by Data Cable on May 20, 2011 1:53:41 GMT -4
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Post by lukepemberton on May 20, 2011 1:58:42 GMT -4
Thanks. Can you give the time GMT please? I'd like to sit and watch with popcorn.
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Post by chew on May 20, 2011 2:42:07 GMT -4
The Rapture is at 6 PM local everywhere. New Zealand will experience the Rapture first, along wit the associated earthquakes, and it will travel westward until it's 6 PM in Hawaii.
A joker on the SGU forum says he's going to lay out sets of clothes and shoes around his town.
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Post by Data Cable on May 20, 2011 2:59:19 GMT -4
Can you give the time GMT please? 6 pm local time, wherever. I'm uncertain if The Almighty will be taking Daylight Savings Time into account.
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Post by tedward on May 20, 2011 3:09:11 GMT -4
Why 6pm on the nose? Better if it was 17:43:12. Would have a better ring to it.
Anyway, people can put their money where their mouth is and sign over all worldly possessions. To me of course.
The only rapture I know anything about is in game where you are bumbling around in a deep sea divers outfit.
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Post by echnaton on May 20, 2011 6:43:59 GMT -4
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Post by Nowhere Man on May 20, 2011 7:02:27 GMT -4
Oh, Geez. It's gotten echnaton early, just as he was posting. Nice of it to click Post Reply for him, though.
Fred
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Post by echnaton on May 20, 2011 7:10:48 GMT -4
The rapture doesn't bother me.....unless they learn how to open doors. Credit to XKCD
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Post by echnaton on May 20, 2011 7:23:35 GMT -4
Can you give the time GMT please? 6 pm local time, wherever. I'm uncertain if The Almighty will be taking Daylight Savings Time into account. The Houston Skeptics n the Pub is holding our Rapture Party at 7:000 pm Central Daylight time, or 6:00 pm Central Standard Time. That must mean something, right? My bet though is on 6 hours after local solar noon. A sort of rolling disaster. But what I haven't figured out yet is what will happen to true believers that are on an airplane leaving Hawaii Saturday for Asia. That could leave some of them behind with the skeptics. Oh the humanity!
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Post by PhantomWolf on May 20, 2011 7:39:38 GMT -4
I just double checked...
"However, no one knows the day or hour when these things will happen, not even the angels in heaven or the Son himself. Only the Father knows." Matthew 24:36
I'm guessing that 6pm on Saturday got crossed off the list a while back, besides, the Rapture will occur during the month of October.
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Post by twik on May 20, 2011 9:33:50 GMT -4
Yep, from a strict theological point of view, no one is supposed to know. So, the people who claim to know are actually disregarding a direct statement from Jesus.
But even deities can't stop a good conspiracy theory, it seems.
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Post by echnaton on May 20, 2011 11:45:23 GMT -4
I just double checked... "However, no one knows the day or hour when these things will happen, not even the angels in heaven or the Son himself. Only the Father knows." Matthew 24:36I'm guessing that 6pm on Saturday got crossed off the list a while back, besides, the Rapture will occur during the month of October. Raptureready.com agrees with you and has all sorts of biblical reasoning to say why Brother Camping is wrong. They don't come out and say he is the Christian equivalent of a dis-info agent, but they say he is bringing embarrassment to God that hardens the hearts of non-believers.
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Post by gillianren on May 20, 2011 13:41:14 GMT -4
Revelation does specifically say there will be false prophets. So one can assume that everyone who puts forth a specific date, in contradiction of what Jesus Himself said, is predicted in the Bible.
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Post by twik on May 20, 2011 15:52:52 GMT -4
What was that skit in The Secret Policeman's Ball? After the umpteenth time the Apocalypse *doesn't* happen, the cult leader sends the members on their way with a cheery, "Well, we're bound to hit it right *some* day!"
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Post by lukepemberton on May 20, 2011 16:18:50 GMT -4
The Rapture is at 6 PM local everywhere. New Zealand will experience the Rapture first, along wit the associated earthquakes, and it will travel westward until it's 6 PM in Hawaii. That will teach me to open the link and read it, instead of the back of the cornflakes box. That's cool. It will be like New Year in Summer. The news will report the rapture as it moves around the globe, telling us which celebs have ascended to heaven. By the time it gets to the UK I might have a yardstick to measure my chances of being called. Now, I wonder if hitting that rabbit on the road last night has ruined my chances.
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