These are the same Christians who pass hours worrying about investing, whether in IRAs or CDs, and what is the market like, and whether their children will "do well." What's the big deal? Did Jesus teach us to worry so much about material comfort and wealth?
2006-07-24 11:41:55 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Business & Finance ➔ Insurance
"The world is falling apart --right? There's nothing we can do about it, right? So, what's to worry?!" -- George Peppard to a hippie audience in "What's So Bad About Feeling Good" circa 1969
Rapture? What rapture? Didn't the planets line up in 1978? What about Y2K? Wasn't Jesuralem ringing with gunfire in 1967? History is full of end-of-the-world prophecies that fizzled.
The last veterans of the Great War of 1914-18 are dying now, and he Jehovah's Witnesses are about to be caught with their pants down worshipping the wrong cataclysm.
Christians SHOULD worry about IRA's and CD's because the great Christian prophet said, "Where your treasure is, so your heart is also."
Jesus Christ never lost his temper, never encouraged his followers to swoon or babble, and never promised to come back. He has a lot of hysterical followers, yes. Let me remind you of something you know deep within your heart -- hysteria, emotional overdrive, exhuberant enfatuation with Jesus -- these are dangerous moods, openings for the dark side. To handle snakes to test God is to worship Satan. To hope the world fries while you watch the Rapture from a skybox with Jesus is to damn your own morbidly curious soul.
I'll tell you a secret. Jesus is disgusted with the Christian churches. He doesn't want to come back and clean out this toilet, and it looks like his father has signed off on the request for a delay. Don't count at all on a "rapture" during your lifetime.
2006-07-24 12:00:22 · answer #1 · answered by urbancoyote 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I didn't know that Christians are worrying about the Rapture. The Lord gave us free will, to good or evil, to work hard or be a sloth. I think it's natural to prepare for the future, as uncertain as it might be. Just like animals store up for the winter. I don't think parents want their children to fail, but they do feel that it is their responsibility to guide them with the hopes that the children will have a fulfilling life--all to the glory of t he Lord. No, Jesus said trust in the Lord. But we were given a mind, strong back and talents that we are expected to use, also to the glory of the Lord. Amen.
2006-07-24 11:54:54 · answer #2 · answered by Darby 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not worried. However, because I don't know when the rapture will occur, I have to provide for my future as if it won't come for quite a while. If I still have money when the rapture comes, I don't really care who gets it.
2006-07-24 13:30:11 · answer #3 · answered by STEVEN F 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We aren't to worry for our redemption draweth nigh...
Luke 21:28 And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.
As far as material wealth...
Matthew 6:19-21 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Titus 2:13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
2006-07-24 11:51:33 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
apparently they have too much time on their hands, or not enough things to worry about, or they belong to a group of people who worry so they worry too.
In the christian religions people are told they need to prepare themselves to enter into the kindgom. Maybe those talking about it all the time are afraid they have not led stellar lives, or they are not sure if that they did would be cancelled out in end times.
2006-07-24 11:45:33 · answer #5 · answered by sophieb 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People still have to plan to be financially stable. If they are worrying, then their eyes aren't focused on Jesus. Everyone goes through a time where they loose focus on things that truly matter. Are you worried?
2006-07-24 11:47:21 · answer #6 · answered by redbird 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who is worried? The only ones worried are the ones afraid they might not be going.
2006-07-24 11:45:49 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
First, what is the connection to insurance with this question.
Then, just what do you mean by 'rapture' since that word means different things.
2006-07-24 11:53:01 · answer #8 · answered by oklatom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Show me someone whose financial plans take "the rapture" into account and I'll show you a nutjob.
2006-07-24 11:44:30 · answer #9 · answered by frugernity 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm a Christian, and I am not worried. I am excited. I can't wait to go home!
2006-07-24 11:44:41 · answer #10 · answered by armywife 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋