by cameo-d 16 Replies latest watchtower bible
Will lack of religious affiliation with a church be the determining factor in declaring one as an "anti-christ"?
If you are not a baptised, signed up, tithing church member somewhere....will this be the dividing line?
Will church membership be the sole criteria of "godliness" in this battle of Armageddon?
Who gets killed off .....the good moral atheists or the hypocritical self righteous christians?
If you are not a baptised, signed up, tithing church member somewhere....will this be the dividing line?
Like in the Book of Life?
purps
Armageddon ain't happenin'.
Every generation since it was written has had people use Revelation as a scare tactic. I'm not surprised it's still happening in the 21st century.
You'd think that god would appreciate people who are religiously neutral, i.e., atheist. At least we aren't going around trying to "cleanse" the world of people whose belief systems don't agree with ours.
With so many religions and so many so-called "holy" books, all claiming to derive from The One True God™, it's kind of like trying to get quotes from insurance brokers from hundreds of different companies. All of them claim to offer exactly what you need, and they give you a mountain of criteria to compare each with one another, all of them bad-mouthing each of the other companies, and in the end it isn't really going to make any difference: everyone is going to die and in the meantime, these guys want to separate you from your money. I can't say as I blame anyone for throwing up their hands in exasperation and saying "Screw it! I'm not going to deal with any of you!"
Who gets killed off .....the good moral atheists or the hypocritical self righteous christians?
I'm betting on the latter.
I am wondering about these Christian Supremacy groups and Christian Militia and if this might play into something in the near future.
Wouldn't "Christian" hate groups be more likely to go after those they view as militant Islamists? Certain Islamic leaders are the ones who threaten other religious believers, atheists are not doing that.
Will Atheists be Targeted as "The Anti-Christ"?
No need to "target" them alone:
"and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God; this is the spirit of the antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming, and now it is already in the world." -1 John 4:3
"For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh This is the deceiver and the antichrist." -2 John 1:7
"Who is the liar but the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son." -1 John 2:22
"Children, it is the last hour; and just as you heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have appeared; from this we know that it is the last hour." -1 John 2:18
Atheists, then, are antichrists. However, they alone are not the only antichrists. Anyone who denies that Jesus Christ was a real, historical, being, who dwelt within a fleshly body, the messiah, the son of God is an antichrist. Anyone who denies the Father, God, is an antichrist.
Will lack of religious affiliation with a church be the determining factor in declaring one as an "anti-christ"?
No, see above.
If you are not a baptised, signed up, tithing church member somewhere....will this be the dividing line?
No again, see scriptures above.
Will church membership be the sole criteria of "godliness" in this battle of Armageddon?
Ditto.
Who gets killed off .....the good moral atheists or the hypocritical self righteous christians?
That is up to Christ. (Matthew 7:1; Luke 6:37; Hebrews 4:13; 1 Timothy 2:4; 1 Peter 4:5)
BA- Search the Scriptures for answers.
Rev. 13 : 2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
The Prince Gr0up
I think those (like above) who are stupid enough to believe ancient myths as "truth" should have a derogatory label as well.
How about: The Anti-Brain
