From: 9051467f@levels.unisa.edu.au (Wild Child)
Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian
Subject: Re: There are two years left! Really?
Date: 13 Sep 92 02:32:53 GMT
Organization: University of South Australia

In article <Sep.10.01.47.09.1992.22035@athos.rutgers.edu>, Bjorn.B.Larsen@delab.sintef.no (Bjorn B. Larsen) writes:
> In article <Sep.9.04.44.29.1992.22306@athos.rutgers.edu>
> stovall@ficus.cs.ucla.edu (Steven Stovall) writes:
 
>  >mvp@netcom.com (Mike Van Pelt) writes:
> If it gets accepted that Christ will return at a specific date, then
> nobody would care to turn to Him and be saved until the day before, at
> the earliest. You would of course also have the ones wanting to know
> the exact second of the return, so they could live in sin and only
> repent the last second.  Please do not flame me for this, as I would

Er.. excuse me, but if your beloved god is every bit as bright as you say he
is, then he could EASILY discern who meant it and who didn't.
Also, if people are going to do that, you are not going to stop them. Besides,
there would be a short time left, so why bother convincing them?

Consider this:
You have just been given absolute proof that a god(s) will bring
about the end of the world on a near date.
As I see it, there would be four types of people;
	- Former disbelievers left who say 'oh well, to late now' (me)
	- Believe it, rejoice and generaly party to the max
        - Repenters without hope - it doesn't count since no faith is involved
	- The not very bright who sin till the last minute.
Only those in the second group would get in to heaven.
The first accept their damnation for disbelieving.
Today, only those
who currently believe without proof will get in since we are not supposed to
put your god to the test - ie once proof is given, saying you repent is
pointless. This counts out the third group.
As for the fourth, I don't think there'd be too many to start with. As I said
before, this god would be able to tell who REALLY repented and who didn't, so
what they do on the outside.
Since proof is given, any repenting thereafter is technically void and null.

As you can tell, I am an atheist. Should I be proven wrong, I accept that. I
wont go murdering people who disagree with me.

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