Saturday, February 05, 2005
Concerning the Rapture
"Are you the extreme fanatics you appear to be? How do you
distinguish yourselves from the Muslim extremists you would condemn? Are you
ecstatic over this week's tsunami destruction? I believe you do a lot of damage;
and I wish you would stop perpetuating this delusional and immoral thinking that
celebrates each occasion of human disaster as testament to your arrogant fantasy
of deferred privilege. Does this recent tragedy somehow lend creedence to your
views? Rather than gloating, wouldn't you better serve the world by putting that
human effort for the people who have been afflicted? I am deeply concerned that
by keeping desperate & lonely people focused on the promise of a future in
the next world, you send a message that dis-empowers them from living this life
as fully and as generously as they might. The people I know who hold to your
views revere suffering and do nothing to take personal responsibility for their
lives now. They manifest powerlessness and self-destructiveness in every
dimension of their lives. Those are the folks you feed on ... cultivating masses
of people who chronically deny personal responsibility, people who are elevated
by suffering, who see it as a sign of their promise on its way at last. Where ARE your hearts? And what does any of this have to do with the
soul? Christ came to liberate the world from the harsh word of the Old
Testament ... yet you continue to revel in its darkest folds. Look inside and
you will see mirrored the very Antichrist you decry. What you teach is
delusional and dark. I urge you to heal your hearts and souls and stop
scavenging on the backs of hopeless and needy people. "
-- Taken from RaptureReady.com, 'Interesting Email'
Perhaps this is the thing that makes the research and study of stuff concerning the Rapture repel me. I can accept the rapture. I know that it will happen and I know that it is seemingly soon.
But sometimes, the impression that it gives... the view that it imposes and implies... Argh.
Is my own human and earthly standard washing in? Is my own idea of pain and processes, my own compromise of the rights and wrongs, drowning me?
Perhaps is humanly corruptance. Perhaps its another one of those 'too-hard-to-fathom' things because I'm only a created being of God.
But its things like these that make me re-wonder about that sole question that I had left out when I was skeptical about truly accepting christ...
What is the N E E D for all this?
Well. Maybe... One day...
Footnotes: Readers, don't speak about this matter. Just leave this blog entry as it was meant to be. Leave it to be reduced to a forgotten existance.
Like the so many other things of life.
_____________Zoneseekers..::
by a perspective that relies on the author of Truth...
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