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Sorry for the long post but I feel I need to vent and get a few things out. If anyone can offer any wisdom or similar experiences it would be gratefully received.

I've woken up today feeling like I need to quit fantasising about relationships in my life. I have done it since I was a teenager. I am a loner, I'm lucky enough to now live with some good friends as of a few months ago which has improved things somewhat, but I still spend the majority of my time alone which results in me having conversations in my head with someone who isn't there. Sometimes family or friends or a crush, sometimes no one in particular. It's the way I let out feelings and thoughts and things that make me laugh because I can't do it in real life. So it's...

When?

When? Or was it in 70 AD?

There's no rapture in the Bible, there's no rapture of the church, cos lk 1 his kingdom has no end, the church remains to the end, the second coming

The purpose of this thread is to post any theological statement you want, but it cannot be divisive. It must be universally edifying.

Utterly destroyed = G1852; cut off and does that mean you will be vaporized as smoke? Psalms 37:20

What do you think? For me, it is a very powerful prayer, (yes, it is a prayer) and Spiritual Weapon against Satan and his demons. Because the sign of the Cross is the mark of our redemption, Satan hates it. Demons flee from the sign of the cross when it is devoutly made. Recently after Mass, my fiance' and I stopped for breakfast. As usual, we cross ourselves before giving thanks to God for our breakfast. A short time later, this Evangelical Christian lady come up to our table and said, " You two must be Catholics" and I said yes we were. She goes on to say she thought so because we crossed ourselves, and that only Catholics do it.

She also asked why we cross ourselves. When I explained why, as I did in my opening statement here,...

Two men are reading the same bible, one is always alone, the other is always in [high] Church services.

Which one is apt to see the services in the written scripture when any portion of one is mentioned?

Forgive me...

Hello, I am a 19-year-old fellow Christian, and I have plenty of concerns regarding the Pre-Tribulation Rapture (PTR).

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Some of my favorite bible teachers, and preachers believe in the PTR. I never had a strong belief in it, but always kind of assumed it did exist, mostly because of the Left Behind movies/books, and the people I listened to. I like studying end times prophecy, and so, upon doing my own research, I started to doubt it's existence. I think that PTR believers' interpretation of Revelation is fairly accurate, with the coming Beast and tribulation (however, I'm not sure it's going to be exactly seven years long, because Revelation isn't specific enough), but I don't see any evidence that Christians...

Props to Starcrystal for the original post from 2004 as read below:

""It was brought up on another thread that an "Apple" was the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good & evil. I have no idea why the forbidden fruit gets portrayed as an Apple so often. Here's my belief and why:

My theory is that Marijuana was the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

I used to smoke it regularly as a teenager, and I remember clearly that often after I smoked I would feel guilty about "sin" although I didn't even know what sin was. Its like I got this insight into myself, and I'd understand that smoking cigarettes was wrong, drinking was wrong, and stealing liqour from my families liquor cabinets was wrong. I realized I had been behaving badly towards...