blueyedpoet said:Christians who believe in the rapture believe that state-issued IDs that are somehow linked to 666 will come about sometime around the rapture. Good christians will, of course, resist these IDs.
BonoVoxSupastar said:
Are you serious?
Axver said:
Every time this sort of thing comes up on Christian messageboards, regardless of the original poster's intent, the thread morphs into a discussion about how it's the "mark of the beast" and is a "sign of the times" and will be used after the Rapture by the Antichrist to control everyone. Anyone who takes the "mark of the beast" is damned to Hell.
Pop theology at its hilarious worst.
blueyedpoet said:Christians who believe in the rapture believe that state-issued IDs that are somehow linked to 666 will come about sometime around the rapture. Good christians will, of course, resist these IDs.
nbcrusader said:
Similar arguments have been raised regarding Social Security Numbers.
There is a continual effort to try and understand the writings in the Book of Revelation and other prophetic writings in Scripture. This is no more than a misguided attempt to quantify the various milestones as described in Scripture (we should not be trying to guess "when", etc.).
It is a difficult command to be "prepared" yet not try to guess "when".
the rockin edge said:
i've met many people in person with those opinions.
Axver said:
I feel sorry for you. I haven't personally met anyone quite that crazy, though I've known a few fans of the Left Behind series.
MacHat said:On the subject of the mark of the beast, for my religious right course we just read an article that talks about how some fundamentalists thought Mikhail Gorbachev's birth mark was the mark of the beast .
MacHat said:On the subject of the mark of the beast, for my religious right course we just read an article that talks about how some fundamentalists thought Mikhail Gorbachev's birth mark was the mark of the beast .
nbcrusader said:
The first followers of Christ did what many do today - get ready.