If you believe the rapture is happening Tuesday, sell me your house for half its market value, for cash, today. There’s probably no time to sell it properly and get the full amount for it, but I can at least give you half its value now. And you can spend your last two days on Earth giving cash to people. And after all, it’s not like you’re going to need the house after the rapture. And assumedly anyone you care about is going to be raptured as well. So why not sell it to a damned sinner such as myself? Get an infusion of cash to spend your last days on Earth literally giving your last Earthly wealth away. Hell, just to be a good sport, if you sell me your house today, I’ll even let you stay in it for free. I promise not to change the locks until Wednesday.
Money won’t mean anything to them…there’s no currency in the eternal. They should give it to you.
I’d rather just wait for them to be raptured and claim the now vacant home for free. But you do you.
That actually happened, the first time idiots tried this - in 1844.
The Seventh-Day Adventist Church is founded entirely on this stupid number game. ‘World’s gonna end… now! Okay, now! Nnnnow! … now!’
I like the fact that even back in 1844 there was still people going, nah, that’s all utter nonsense, I’m going to make money out of this.
PT Barnum: “… and two to take him.”
Coolio… Here’s my Zell$… My market value is $700K USD.
SEND the $350K USD, ASAP… #ByeByeBitches
The great thing is even if you’re wrong and the rapture does happen, you’ve still got a house. There’s literally no downside to any of this for anyone.
My favorite entrepreneur was a guy who took money from people to look after their pets when he and the pets were left behind after the rapture.
I don’t believe in a god or higher power, but I do believe that if there was one that was good enough to devote your life to, they’d let my pets into the afterlife.
My dog and cat have been nothing but good girls. If I die and find an afterlife and they won’t join me, I’m rioting.
How do we know the rapture didn’t already happen and only 5 people made the cut?
Rapture happened and only Amelia Earhart was selected.
I don’t understand christian theology. The rapture apparently comes from something in “First Epistle to the Thessalonians”, which is just Paul (probably) writing a letter. It’s christianity, not Paulianity. Why is this even in the bible? Oh, that’s probably a whole rabbit hole.
They really need to release “Jesus, the teenage years” because there’s way more insane things in there than the rapture. At one point Jesus, who has three siblings who are never mentioned ever again, fights a dragon. That’s right, according to Christianity there were dragons, but Jesus killed all of them when he was like 14.
youre asking for a real “Teenjus”?
Jesus kills this first child, when at age one he curses a boy, which causes the child’s body to wither into a corpse.
Isn’t the Gospel of Thomas not considered canonical?
It’s christianity, not Paulianity.
It kinda is Paulianity. Paul, unfortunately, had a massive influence on the early church. He’s probably the one most responsible for the focus shifting from “Love your neighbor as yourself” to “Believe Jesus is God or else”.
That’s an impoverished view of the writings attributed to Paul in the NT. He’s also called the author of stuff like 1 Corinthians 13.
A sampling:
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, [love] is not pompous, it is not inflated, 5 it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury, 6 it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth. 7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
That doesn’t change his many other beliefs, most relevantly all the messianic, apocalyptic additions.
He still shouldn’t have been writing while tripping.
Thanks. that’s beautiful
Let’s not gloss over the fact that “neighbor” in this context literally meant only Hebrews. God went on to explain how it’s totally cool to genocide and enslave everyone else like 3 verses after “love your neighbor.”
If we’re talking OT, even Leviticus says to treat foreigners as neighbors in 19:34. If we’re keeping it NT, I don’t recall Jesus advocating genocide or slavery.
Jesus said heaven and earth would pass away before one letter was removed from the old law. But also maybe whoever wrote leviticus should pick a lane:
Chapter 25
44 “‘Your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you; from them you may buy slaves. 45 You may also buy some of the temporary residents living among you and members of their clans born in your country, and they will become your property. 46 You can bequeath them to your children as inherited property and can make them slaves for life, but you must not rule over your fellow Israelites ruthlessly.
Suddenly, Israel’s actions make a lot more sense.
The New Testament absolutely says that it’s ok to keep slaves and provides guidelines for how matters should treat their slaves and how slave should behave. This is mostly within the context of Roman society at the time.
Pretty sure the stuff you’re thinking about is yet another awful thing that Paul said.
And Roman slavery at the time was much more like indentured servitude than what we generally refer to when we talk about “slavery”. Though you’re gonna have to cite chapter and verse for saying it’s okay, I don’t recall anything like that.
I mean, don’t misunderstand me as advocating for Christianity, but isn’t what you are saying literally addressed as wrong in new testament?
I thought that the whole point about the parable of the good samaritan is about the question “but who is my neighbour?” asked in bad faith?
This is what happens when you cobble together a religion out of beliefs from every other religion you know of at the time to try to get the “single issue” believers.
Sure is, starting with the fact that if Paul was ever actually Paul he either had a head injury after the beginning or someone else wrote the latter half of his letters.
Religious psychosis is always so interesting to see.
You’ve had countless “the end is next week” scares go hyper-viral for hundreds of years, but they keep finding thousands or even millions of believers every time.
And these people vote.
I have to say the Rapture probably is our best bet for a peaceful world.
Ok at least some of these people are probably just doing a bit
So this lady is trying to buy her way into the rapture by helping “unfortunate people” left behind?
The venn diagram of people who lived their lives in such a way that could get them into heaven, and those that believe in Christianity, are completely separate circles.
For the most part this is true, but there are plenty of counter examples too. Fred Rogers comes to mind, for instance. But unfortunately, many Christians now deem him a net harm on the children he taught to love themselves. Fucking sad state of things, for sure.
Change is necessary, in any form?
This woman would believe she’s going to heaven, right? So I would imagine she’d be ok speeding through the last hours on earth.
Not as kind as it sounds. It would be, if you recognized that death is (likely) nothingless, I think.
This woman would believe she’s going to heaven, right? So I would imagine she’d be ok speeding through the last hours on earth.
Hopefully. Otherwise this is her “My Name is Earl” 's version of repentance.
No time to repent. Only time to
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