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valarltdI've been kicking around a Post-Rapture Romance Novel. It'd be a rather bleak one, a pair of lovers set against the massive disappearances and destruction.
And I have questions.
BTW: if you answer "other" please explain in a comment.
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And I have questions.
BTW: if you answer "other" please explain in a comment.
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Date: 2008-11-04 02:40 am (UTC)1) the Rapture. I'm not sure if I believe in it or not. We weren't really taught it, just to expect the Second Coming whenever. Obviously the world's going to end someday, and it'd be nice to get to miss all the nasty stuff, but I'm not betting on it. So I don't disbelieve in it, I just haven't given it much thought. I focus my energy on being a better person while I'm here than worrying about the future (this also applies to post-college career, urgh help I graduate in 5 months what now)
2) The "type" of Rapture I am also not sure about, for the same reason. I don't think Christians would get special treatment in this world, but if it's the end of the world- I HAVE NO IDEA.
3) who gets taken- here is where I disagree with my mother. I think that if anybody lives a decent, good life, they have a shot at Heaven. Mom says you have to have accepted Jesus into your heart. My thinking is, what if you have, but you don't know it? What if you haven't had a chance to learn about Jesus? ANYHOW, I didn't pick one becuase I'm not sure. Obviously I think it's better if you love Jesus and share Him with others, but I think the overall effect is the same if you live a Christian-like life without being a Christian. This is just ordinary dying-and-getting-into-Heaven-or-not, mind, perhaps the Special Rapture Version is different.
4) Last question- I still don't see God as a homophobe, so we'll have to agree to disagree on this still. I don't think their orientation would have anything to do with whether they got left or not, if the Rapture occured.
I've always thought that it wouldn't be fair to leave children, because what if they found Jesus after the "train" left, so to speak? Would they be out of luck? Would they get a second chance? I mean, adults would probably get a chance to find Jesus once the world started, you know, ending. But what about kids too young at the time?
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Date: 2008-11-04 02:56 am (UTC)Children left would have as much chance as adults.
I wasn't worried about God being a homophobe. I was worried about the story coming off as such.
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Date: 2008-11-04 03:13 am (UTC)It worries me about the children, still. I know I made my first confession of faith at age 7, and I know now that I, personally, was too young for that decision, although at the time the pastor talked to me and was convinced that I was old enough. In my opinion, if God's going to be taking the innocent away, he'd be taking all the children.
Although maybe something would happen a few years previous to the Rapture - part of the world ending- that would prevent anyone from being able to have children, so there wouldn't be any minors to deal with. Nuclear war or something like that. Famine? Bioterrorism? Governmental actions against overpopulation that get out of hand? ALIENS!?
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Date: 2008-11-04 06:30 pm (UTC)St. Paul actually covered that. It's probably in Acts. He was specifically asked about people who had never heard of Jesus, and he replied something to the effect of it depended on whether or not they followed their conscience. Christians often overlook that inconvient third member of the Trinity, the Holy Spirit, which is the One responsible for telling what is good to do.