by clueless » Fri 18 Aug 2006, 15:13:27
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I') don't know about you, clueless, but when society collapses and the hordes of starving people arrive at my door or whatever they can take whatever they want if I have anything. I don't need any of it where I'm going. I'm blessed to have these things at the moment and I do thank God for that.
These people on this board are a trip aren't they? Putting your trust in Jesus Christ is all anyone has to do. Thats all the preparations anyone has to make. Death is not the end. Its just the beggining.
I'm at peace about this whole thing now really. Whatever happens, happens. To me all thats comming down the pike is just going to be a test of character. There is whole lot more to the comming situation than "surviving". Its all about how you deal with and react to things.
Are you gonna be one of the selfish ones rioting, killing, and looting because you lost everything? Yep, its all gonna be a big test of character.
That is the truly ironic thing about most of these guys(and gals)...The Bible starts in Genesis (Beginnings) and ends in Revelation (the Revelation of Jesus Christ) which among other things describes the fall of "mystery babylon" or industrial society, and does so fairly accurately...And most of the bowls, horsemen and plaugues parallel oil and resource depletion, along with polution most likely due to failures of waste processing and just plain burning dirty fuels..
It also has more profound truths, as you said, that encourage not to trust in a degenerating world, that mankind is an imperfect creature while perfection is required to be in the prescence of God (who is a consuming fire) and anyone who trusts in the perfect Son of God for their perfection will be spared from the "Wrath to Come" ...That is it - simple, nothing else is required.
I don't see the problem...
My hope does not lie in this world, including science, if it does then we are the most pitiful of creatures...I would rather be an animal.