Aha! I finally get it!

[cmotherofpirl]

actually I think it was a protestant minister in Scotland.

[homeschoolmom]

John Nelson Darby (1800-1882) is the father of the rapture.

[cmotherofpirl]

thanks dearie. Is he scots?

[Brother Adam]

Alot of it still confuses me, but I"m trying my best to work through David Currie's "Rapture".

[tojo]

[quote name='1337 k4th0l1x0r' date='Dec 2 2005, 02:06 PM']Fundies won't admit that they're obsessed with the rapture because they want to go to heaven but don't want to die to do so.  It's as simple as that.
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I think it's very arrogant to claim one understands the hearts and minds and beliefs of others better than they do themselves.

[Brother Adam]

[quote name='tomasio127' date='Dec 5 2005, 12:42 PM']I think it's very arrogant to claim one understands the hearts and minds and beliefs of others better than they do themselves.
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Actually he is quite right.

American Fundamentalist Christians avoid suffering like the plague (pardon the pun). If you are suffering, as far as they are concerned, something is wrong with your spiritual life. I was one of them once.

[homeschoolmom]

Yes, I think so. He created the whole system of dispensationalism... Cyrus (I think) Schofield moved it along... as did Hal Lindsey and now Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins

[Aloysius]

the Eucharist is sitll Christ's first coming. He remains with us always until the end of the age...

[Brother Adam]

Someone on phatmass (homeschoolmom?) should give lessons on why fundie end times theology is wrong. I don't know why I just 'don't get' most of their beliefs.

[homeschoolmom]

[quote name='Aloysius' date='Dec 5 2005, 11:48 AM']  He remains with us always until the end of the age...
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And then he goes away??

Kidding...

[N/A Gone]

run away!!!!