Topic: Another catastrophe at a Christian church in Holy Week! At least 13 dead in South Africa.
Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U started this discussion 7 years ago #86,153
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-47987959
What on earth is happening? It feels like we're in the End Times! I don't know if the message from God here is that the Apocalypse is on its way and His divine judgement is coming, or that the Church must do more to convert people, to raise more funds, and to renovate his Churches to their full glory.
Join me please in praying for the victims in South Africa on this Good Friday.
What on earth is happening? It feels like we're in the End Times! I don't know if the message from God here is that the Apocalypse is on its way and His divine judgement is coming, or that the Church must do more to convert people, to raise more funds, and to renovate his Churches to their full glory.
Join me please in praying for the victims in South Africa on this Good Friday.
Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 7 years ago, 3 minutes later[^] [v] #986,736
It's always the end of the world father Merrin. Dying means the world is ending for you.
Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U (OP) replied with this 7 years ago, 11 minutes later, 15 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #986,739
@previous (B)
> It's always the end of the world father Merrin. Dying means the world is ending for you.
Your 2nd sentence shifts the goalposts of your first :)
> It's always the end of the world father Merrin. Dying means the world is ending for you.
Your 2nd sentence shifts the goalposts of your first :)
Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 7 years ago, 8 minutes later, 23 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #986,743
First France and now South Africa... Perhaps this is God's way of saying, "I don't like black people"?
Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU joined in and replied with this 7 years ago, 3 minutes later, 27 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #986,748
Yeah the world is ending, isn't it awesome!?
Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U (OP) replied with this 7 years ago, 13 minutes later, 40 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #986,756
@previous (Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU)
> Yeah the world is ending, isn't it awesome!?
For those who have accepted Christ as their Lord and Savior - yes. For those who haven't, I dread to think...
> Yeah the world is ending, isn't it awesome!?
For those who have accepted Christ as their Lord and Savior - yes. For those who haven't, I dread to think...
Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU replied with this 7 years ago, 1 minute later, 42 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #986,759
@previous (Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U)
If the end days are so good for believers in Christ, do you think they are deliberately bringing it about by lightning their own churches on fire?
If the end days are so good for believers in Christ, do you think they are deliberately bringing it about by lightning their own churches on fire?
Anonymous C replied with this 7 years ago, 3 minutes later, 45 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #986,761
Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U (OP) replied with this 7 years ago, 26 seconds later, 45 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #986,762
@986,759 (Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU)
> If the end days are so good for believers in Christ, do you think they are deliberately bringing it about by lightning their own churches on fire?
That's like asking if a child can make Santa visit his house earlier if he puts out the decorations in November.
Think before you write things, my boy. Think.
> If the end days are so good for believers in Christ, do you think they are deliberately bringing it about by lightning their own churches on fire?
That's like asking if a child can make Santa visit his house earlier if he puts out the decorations in November.
Think before you write things, my boy. Think.
Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 7 years ago, 3 hours later, 3 hours after the original post[^] [v] #986,785
Anonymous E double-posted this 7 years ago, 2 minutes later, 4 hours after the original post[^] [v] #986,786
@986,762 (Father Merrin !u5oFWxmY7U)
Hes still in the stage where he thinks his intelligence is above average in comparison to everyone on the planet.
Hes still in the stage where he thinks his intelligence is above average in comparison to everyone on the planet.
Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU replied with this 7 years ago, 4 minutes later, 4 hours after the original post[^] [v] #986,789
@986,785 (E)
People have guessed and been wrong before, but that's because they're trying to know the unknowable. It will happen, and when it does there will be no time to prepare. Get your affairs in order for tommorow could be the day.
36 “But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son,[f] but only the Father. 37 As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 38 For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; 39 and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 40 Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. 41 Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left.
42 “Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come. 43 But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into. 44 So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.
42 “Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come. 43 But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into. 44 So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.
People have guessed and been wrong before, but that's because they're trying to know the unknowable. It will happen, and when it does there will be no time to prepare. Get your affairs in order for tommorow could be the day.