Someone said the mark could be a computer chip. WTF is wrong with you people?? The bible said it would be burned onto your skin. You will have a mark on your head and arm. Do you get to just keep making up the rules as you go??? This is the perfect reason why i can't believe in your foolish religion or any for that matter. The freakin rules keep changing to satisfy the times. Bedtime stories, that's what the Bible is. You don't get to change the rules.
2007-05-26 01:38:29 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Trust me. I WAS a devout Christian for 20 years. Baptist to be exact. It was only when i left the church did i find MYSELF. I could finally breath. It's something i try to put behind me. All the years of being told what a sinner i was. I dropped my Bible in church once and was smacked for it...it front of everyone. There are many stories like that. It was not my parents doing the smacking either. They were not even there. It was the Minister. How messed up is that? I was 12 years old.
2007-05-26 01:49:32 · update #1
PS. It's not the first time i have heard this computer chip theory.
2007-05-26 01:51:14 · update #2
I am sorry that you were hurt early in life by this Pastor......
Will you allow your bitterness toward one misguided Pastor or other Christians to rob you of eternal life? The Bible is no less true than it was when you went to church in the past. If my measure of walking with Christ depended on people then I would have some serious problems because there are all kinds of people claiming to be Christians who aren't.
Don't toss away God's greatest gift to you because of what man has done. Christ's love is real and unchanging, and He has promised that when everyone else forsakes you He will never forsake you.
As far as the Revelation - As a child of God I strongly believe that if, and when, the anti-Christ begins to impose his mark on people all real Christians will be able to recognize the imposter and resist his lies and his mark even to the point of death and martyrdom. God never fails His people.
God's rules never change to satisfy the times as you said above. People may keep changing things, but God's word will stand pure and unchanging through eternity. You and I and everyone else is responsible for our own understanding of what the Bible says. We can read the Bible and listen to what others say, but in the end we will be responsible for what
we believe personally.
God is still in the business of forgiving and cleansing us from every evil thing we have done - and he loves everyone the same. You should ask Him to heal the inner hurts you have suffered, forgive you for turning away from Him and let Him fill your heart with His love and sustain you from now on. It is hard to live with anger and bitterness - I know - I hated my own
father for 23 years for abandoning me when I was a boy. God
healed that hatred and helped me forgive my father before he died.
2007-05-26 02:17:22 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Calm down. You are talking about a prophecy that was to occur during the end times of civilization as we know it. How would a man who lived 2,000 years ago describe the sights that he would see today.
There are several modern theories about the meaning of 666. They include the bar code symbols that use three series of six lines. The 666 system is supposed to only allow its members to buy and sell (in the Bible). The number was supposed to be in the forehead or in the hand. It could be something similar to a credit card, whether held in the hand, or under the skin. I could not find any reference where it would be BURNED in the skin. It could be a tattoo.
2007-05-26 01:52:15 · answer #2 · answered by ignoramus_the_great 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Sorry that you feel the way you do. I have been in church for years and never witnessed any abuse or meanness toward anyone. We are all told that we are sinners and we are also reminded that one sin is not any different from another sin in God's eyes and that we are all saved by the blood of Jesus Christ. I am not scared of anything in the book of Revelation. I am one of God's children and I have His protection now and always. If the things that are talked about in Rev. come to pass, I will trust God.
2007-05-26 01:54:25 · answer #3 · answered by Kat 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
the bible was introduced to humanity diametriacally opposed to the truth... by the past,
the sell out of the spirit... that is where you are tortured in the spirit.... how would we know that when it is sold out from under us in childhood... so that people don't know what it feels like to be free spiritually...
we are born spiritual, emotional, mental, physical
how would you feel if you were a slave physically mentally or emotionally not nice is it.... then imagine the mess we are all in by being made slaves spiritually... Revelations is written of the time when mother nature will come to battle what "satan" did in the spirit... beginning with the catholic church...
2007-05-26 01:53:11 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
Do not matter what the mark is I do not whant it and will do everything not to recieve anything similar even a tatoo. God Bless
2007-05-26 01:53:27 · answer #5 · answered by channiek 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I am not scared about it. People can wonder all they want though. Why can't a computer chip be burned into your hand? Where does it say it has to be burned?
2007-05-26 01:42:26 · answer #6 · answered by cclleeoo 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
You take offense at the way people deal with Revelation and therefore the whole Bible is wrong?
May I humbly suggest you take offense at the people, not the book.
Revelation states, at the very outset, that it is a book of symbols.
So please don't take it literally.
2007-05-26 01:43:51 · answer #7 · answered by Uncle Thesis 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Haha I asked that question. I haven't checked out the answers yet, but it looks like is will be an interesting read!
2007-05-26 01:45:00 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
NO,GODS WORD WILL BE FULFILLED,IT IS TRUE THEY HAVE A COMPUTER THAT IS VERY POWER FULL,A MARK,COULD BE,WHEN THEY PLANT THE CHIP ON YOUR
HEAD OR ARM,YOU WILL BE LEFT WITH A MARK.THEY
WILL KNOW WHEREVER YOU GO AND DO.THEY ARE USING THESE ON ANIMALS RIGHT NOW.TO UNDERSTAND THE HOLY BIBLE, WE ARE TO HAVE HIS UNDERSTANDING AND NOT OURS,GODS WORD DOES NOT CHANGE.
GOD LOVES YOU,Use your faith to find God
Heb:11:5: By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
Heb:11:6: But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
Heb:11:7: By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.
Heb:11:8: By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
Heb:11:9: By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:
Heb:11:10: For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
Heb:11:11: Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.
Heb:11:12: Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.
Heb:11:13: These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
Heb:11:14: For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.
Heb:11:15: And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.
Heb:11:16: But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.
Heb:11:17: By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son,
Heb:11:18: Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called:
Heb:11:19: Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.
Heb:11:20: By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.
Heb:11:21: By faith Jacob, when he was a dying, blessed both the sons of Joseph; and worshipped, leaning upon the top of his staff.
Heb:11:22: By faith Joseph, when he died, made mention of the departing of the children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones.
Heb:11:23: By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his parents, because they saw he was a proper child; and they were not afraid of the king's commandment.
Heb:11:24: By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter;
Heb:11:25: Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;
Heb:11:26: Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward.
Heb:11:27: By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.
Heb:11:28: Through faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them.
Heb:11:29: By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land: which the Egyptians assaying to do were drowned.
Heb:11:30: By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about seven days.
Heb:11:31: By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she had received the spies with peace.
NOT ALL CHRISTIAN CAN UNDERSTAND THE MYSTERIES,YOU ARE NOT ALONE. THAT WAS NOT A MINISTER,THE ANTICHRIST IS AMONG US,TO DECEIVE MANY AND TAKE THEIR SOULS.
A BROTHER IN JESUS CHRIST,GOD BLESS
2007-05-26 02:09:07 · answer #9 · answered by flindo61 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
How can the Bible ever make sense if you won't let them change the rules. Come on; be reasonable. Don't spoil all their fun.
2007-05-26 01:42:38 · answer #10 · answered by Kathryn™ 6 · 2⤊ 4⤋