Veritass
Emperor
I read "Left Behind" (just the first book) a few years ago out of curiosity, and it made me curious about why the people disappeared. I had broached this subject on another message board, and thought I would re-ask it here.
Christians and other who bury their dead make a clear distinction that "you" are your soul, and that after you die, "you" are now in heaven, while your now-empty vessel of a body is in the ground. If the rapture comes, why do we think that, say, 1 billion people will suddenly disappear physically?
Scenario #1: What if we define the "soul" that goes to heaven as that which makes the body alive? Then 1 billion people will just mysteriously die. Of course, this makes for the same logistical problem as in "Left Behind" where millions of planes, trains, and automobiles are suddenly uncontrolled. It also adds the logistical problem of disposing of the 1 billion bodies, lest the decomposition and disease kill the rest of the population.
In this scenario, most of Europe and the Americas are suddenly decimated in population, which would probably be followed by expansion and imperialism out of Asia and Africa, and any number of other power grabs.
Scenario #2: What if we define the "soul" that goes to heaven as that which makes us human? There are plenty of animals that are alive, but that Christians define as not having a soul. In this scenario, we now have 1 billion "hairless apes" running around "...without the sense God gave you." That would produce an even greater logistical problem, and would probably require that the survivors define the new zombie-animals to be less than human, and eradicate them.
Either way, dystopia awaits.
Get right with [some] God.
Christians and other who bury their dead make a clear distinction that "you" are your soul, and that after you die, "you" are now in heaven, while your now-empty vessel of a body is in the ground. If the rapture comes, why do we think that, say, 1 billion people will suddenly disappear physically?
Scenario #1: What if we define the "soul" that goes to heaven as that which makes the body alive? Then 1 billion people will just mysteriously die. Of course, this makes for the same logistical problem as in "Left Behind" where millions of planes, trains, and automobiles are suddenly uncontrolled. It also adds the logistical problem of disposing of the 1 billion bodies, lest the decomposition and disease kill the rest of the population.
In this scenario, most of Europe and the Americas are suddenly decimated in population, which would probably be followed by expansion and imperialism out of Asia and Africa, and any number of other power grabs.
Scenario #2: What if we define the "soul" that goes to heaven as that which makes us human? There are plenty of animals that are alive, but that Christians define as not having a soul. In this scenario, we now have 1 billion "hairless apes" running around "...without the sense God gave you." That would produce an even greater logistical problem, and would probably require that the survivors define the new zombie-animals to be less than human, and eradicate them.
Either way, dystopia awaits.
Get right with [some] God.
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