This also reminds me of the Demi Moore film. Is the Gof empty?

But Smith was right -- and in fact, he made it a plot point to the entire arc. AFAIK, everything in the Bible about the Second Coming indicates Jesus will return as an adult, that there will be a Descension.

And if you don't think this means we can tie in TimeCop somehow, well, you're just not paying attention.

it made a believer out of me.

This has "Total F***king Stinkbomb" written all over it. It'll make THE PROPHECY look like THE SEVENTH SEAL.

Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame. And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon." - Boring

"Seven Corps will be born. Seven Corps will shine their light brightly. Seven Corps will be at War" - Epic.

Revelations doesn't sound as badass as FINAL CRISIS or THE BLACKEST NIGHT.

Wait. I just re-read the plot of LEGION... nevermind. No f***king way.

Xiphos, we disagree on the rationality of the Bible and Christian tenets. I'm saying that if you're going to work under the assumption of certain premises the Bible teaches, then you must be consistent with all of what the Bible teaches, namely, the all-powerful nature of God vs. the inability of God to escape a human body. If you're going to play tennis, play by the rules or don't call it tennis.

I don't believe in The Bible, but taken as mythology there's some interesting stuff in there. Most of it is in the Old Testament. The Gospels are interesting but the rest of the New Testament pretty much blows, especially the Pauline letters. Absolutely awful, and half of them aren't even written by Paul.

...while talkin bout Pentagon City, I ran into Katino Mobley (b-baller) in the food court...my friends were like "oh that's Katino Mobley" and I replied..."what the fuck is a Katino Mobley"...he was literally right in front of me and laughed...I felt good dissin him...then years later, I end up usin him and the Rockets on one of the NBA games...my 1st ahole attack on a "celeb"...HO YEA!

*cough*

I don't pretend to be christian, but how exactly is the second coming a good thing? Isn't that what they said would bring about the end of days; i.e. the end of mankind?

One thing, though, putting homosexuality in the same category as murder and rape isn't going to make you a very popular poster. Even the homophobes don't like being told to hate homos because the Bible says so. I know this is a pickle, in this day and age, your faith telling you one thing, and the concept of Human Rights contradicting it, but isn't there something about that in the Bible too? Something about leading a pious life, but respecting the laws of man? I don't know, I'm a lapsed catholic turned atheist, who cares what I have to say, right?

The actual text in the Bible was written by men. Only the most fervent and wild-eyed fundamentalists take every passage as literal truth, so for those thinking believers who choose the essence of the Word, rather than the literal text, I ask you: Don't you think it's possible that since homosexuality is a perennial, ubiquitous human phenomenon, it might be exempt from the categories of morality and/or sin? Don't you think that it's possible that in this one case at least, the men who wrote the Bible might have flubbed it? That its likely that their own agendas may have gotten stirred in with the Holy Word? After hundreds of years of rewrites, edits, translations, lost and found bits and pieces, patches, and fixes that it's JUST POSSIBLE that not everything in the Bible follows the essence of the Word of God? We understand what homosexuality is now, better than they did 2000 years ago. It isn't demons, it isn't divine punishment, its a component of human sexuality. Even heterosexuality has been re-evaluated by the church since those times.

I brought up human rights in my last post. Now, whatever you may think or believe about gay people, their lifestyle, their sexuality, or their souls, you have to admit that they are human, right? and that they have the same rights as anyone else? Don't you think that in this day and age the Church could find it in its collective heart to accept that? Isn't that more in line with the essence of the Word?

Or should we just stone the faggots? Would that make Jesus happy?

I'm not sure you actually understand, Mr Indisguise, what the word "atheist" means?

It's got nothing to do with being in control of anything or being held accountable for anything... Simply means you don't believe in God. Jesus. Heaven. All that crap... You just don't buy it - or any of the other flavours, either - and that's the beginning and the end of it.

All the rest is just you projecting your own shit on other people - actually, now that I think about it, it's ALL you projecting your shit on other people, isn't it?

I like a good Bible story as much as the next guy - I just don't get the shits if people don't believe it's Based On A True Story...

how about the introduction to The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy?

how about that crappy animation... Titan AE or something like that? Actually that was an *almost* extinction of mankind so I guess that doesn't count

someone remind me - how did Deep Impact end?

Oh wait, that's how Deep Throat ends.

You know, JackRabbitSlim, the one thing that always bothered me about that story, was the fact that the herd of pigs belonged to someone. So, Jesus pretty much killed off someone else's livestock. Anyway, it's probably one of the cooler parts of the New Testament.