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WHEN WILL THE RAPTURE BE - And the lies of the Mormon church from page 11.
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[quote:MagiChristmas:MV84Nzk2NDNfMTM2NTU5MzZfOERDOTVGNkI=] Is a Comic Strip really the best you can come up with? Your failure to respond at least negates the need to quote for clarification which Comic Strip this post remedies. When life gives you lemons, Make lemonade. :note: HardTruth gets "Worlds Witout End" http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message862137/pg2#13355966 HT again has discerned divine truths that are self-evident in this modern age. :sun: [quote:HardTruth] :another do: Why should I or anyone for that matter ever take anything you say seriously, when you can't seem to crawl out of the dark ages and realize that the whole of this universe isn't just for us Earthlings!! The universe is full of intelligent life and we humans are not the TRUE CREATORS best and brightest, in fact we are at the bottom of that list!! [/quote] Worlds Without End by John P. Pratt Meridian Science Editor Science news periodicals are now reporting strong new confirmation of the existence of planets around other suns. Is there life like ours on other worlds? Science news periodicals are now reporting strong new confirmation of the existence of planets around other suns, which brings scientists one step closer to answering that question. But for Latter-day saints, the answer has been known to be in the affirmative since the days of the Prophet Joseph Smith. For millennia mankind has looked into the heavens and wondered just what stars really are. In the last few centuries scientific evidence has made it clear that stars are really "suns", very much like our own sun, but so extremely far away that they appear to be mere pinpoints of light. The question then arose whether or not they have systems of planets surrounding them as our sun does. Our earth is the third planet of nine in our solar system orbiting the sun and it has all the conditions on it perfectly suited for life. Do other stars have planets, and if so, do they have life as we know it? Are inhabited worlds an extremely rare phenomenon in our universe, or very common? Scientists have debated that question for the last century or so, but now scientific evidence is coming forth to shed light on the subject. Before 1995, there were no planets known to exist around other stars. That was not taken as proof of the non-existence of such planets, because stars are so far away that it makes detection of planets orbiting those stars to be extremely difficult, so the debates on the subject included many assumptions and much speculation. Since 1995, with today's extremely sensitive equipment, an entire parade of such planets has been discovered. These planets cannot be seen visually because their light is lost in the brighter light of their sun. Instead, they were discovered indirectly by observing the "wobbling" they cause in their sun's motion, indicated in its spectral lines. As the current (March 2000) issue of Astronomy magazine points out, there are currently a grand total of 33 extrasolar planets known, which are listed on their web site at www.astronomy.com. That issue also notes that it was only last year that the first true planetary system of more than one planet orbiting the same star was discovered. There are at least three planets orbiting the solar-type star called Upsilon Andromedae, with the middle one of the three separated from its sun at about four fifths the distance of the earth to the sun.[1] The recent new evidence for the existence of these extrasolar planets came from an entirely different kind of observation, so it is becomes strong confirming testimony of their existence. As shown in the artist's conception picture, the light of a star has actually been observed to get dimmer as a planet moved across its disk. The relative size of the planet as shown in the picture cannot be seen directly, but can be deduced from the precise way that the star's light dims for about 3 hours every three days as reported in the February 2000 issue of Sky and Telescope: "For the first time a planet of another star has been seen crossing the star's face, allowing astronomers to measure directly the planet's size, mass, and density. . . . The case for the existence of extrasolar planets has been clinched with the observation of an object some 30 percent larger than Jupiter crossing the face of [the star astronomers call] HD 209458 in Pegasus."[2] Of course, while these discoveries confirm that planets exists around other suns, they are a long way from showing there is any life at all on those planets, much less life as we know it. Indeed, the presence of life has not even been discovered on our nearest celestial neighbors of the Moon, Venus or Mars. Fortunately, the Lord has revealed to us the answers to many of these questions. One of the most mind-expanding revelations was given to Moses as the preface to the book of Genesis. The account in Genesis describes only of the creation of this earth, but before revealing that history, God made it clear that this is only one of many worlds. Moreover, the existence of man on the earth is not a mere chance occurrence, nor even a minor blip on the Lord's radar scope. Mankind's achieving eternal life is the Lord's full-time occupation, he explained to Moses: "But only an account of this earth, and the inhabitants thereof, give I unto you. For behold, there are many worlds that have passed away by the word of my power. And there are many that now stand, and innumerable are they unto man; but all things are numbered unto me, for they are mine and I know them. "And it came to pass that Moses spake unto the Lord, saying: Be merciful unto thy servant, O God, and tell me concerning this earth, and the inhabitants thereof, and also the heavens, and then thy servant will be content. "And the Lord God spake unto Moses, saying: The heavens, they are many, and they cannot be numbered unto man; but they are numbered unto me, for they are mine. "And as one earth shall pass away, and the heavens thereof even so shall another come; and there is no end to my works, neither to my words. " For behold, this is my work and my glory-- to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man. "And now, Moses, my son, I will speak unto thee concerning this earth upon which thou standest; and thou shalt write the things which I shall speak. (Moses 1:35-40) The Lord then went on to reveal the account of the creation of the earth found in the Book of Genesis and also beginning in Moses 2. Thus we can learn in a few sentences from the Creator about the magnitude of his extensive work, far beyond what science has yet been able to discover. http://meridianmagazine.com/sci_rel/000317worlds.html 130:4 In answer to the question—Is not the reckoning of God's time, angel's time, prophet's time, and man's time, according to the planet on which they reside? 130:5 I answer, Yes. But there are no angels who minister to this earth but those who do belong or have belonged to it. 130:6 The angels do not reside on a planet like this earth; 130:7 But they reside in the presence of God, on a globe like a sea of glass and fire, where all things for their glory are manifest, past, present, and future, and are continually before the Lord. http://sacred-texts.com/mor/dc/dc130.htm MC [/quote]
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Basically I think that there is only one correct answer and that is...
today
. Note that there are two classes of the blessed. Class I Those who are dead in Christ. Class II Those who are alive in Christ.
Now someone who is in Class I was obviously at some time in the past a member of Class II. Non of us can guarantee that we will still be drawing breath at this time tomorrow. So this is not a matter that you can comfortably "put off". As is the common human tendency when faced with a decision. In fact putting it off is in fact a decision in and of it's self. You might be blessed with a little more time,
but don't count on it.
The risks and consequences of dying in your sins are just to great. All of us are skating on thin ice.
1Th 4:13 ¶ But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
1Th 4:14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
1Th 4:15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive [and] remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
1Th 4:16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
1Th 4:17 Then we which are alive [and] remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
1Th 4:18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
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