An early memory recalled many years later of a half-awake child who says things that even Reader’s Digest wouldn’t quote with a straight face is something you define as fact?
You do realize that noone who ever looked on Jesus during his lifetime left a description or a drawing regarding what he looked like?
With all due respect, please site for me when there was a time when there were so many atomic bombs floating around … and when there was the type of high-tech tracking and monitoring devices along with eyes in the sky … and video cameras popping up like mushrooms … and people having access to hardcore porn via computers in their livingrooms?
I submit to you that these times are unlike any other times in human history.
Show me where any of these items are mentioned in the Bible.
Aww c’mon guys. Give him a break. I used to be able to fly when I was a kid - not inconceivable that he could see faces in clouds.
There are objective facts and subjective facts. Please see my comment about my saying that I should have parenthetically added “to me.”
I never said that I could transport anyone back in time and seat themselves in my head to experience the event for themselves. I only said what happened, and how far back in time it was is neither here nor there as far as I’m concerned; same for what the people at Reader’s Digest may think, it doesn’t matter to me. (But if they should ask, I’ll certainly be honest with them as I’ve been with you.)
Why are you trying so hard to nit-pick at everything I say? Wouldn’t you have been smarter to have asked something like, “Why would Jesus appear like that to you?” Or, “Have you had any other encounters with Jesus since then?” Or, “Why did you call Him the man from the river?” Or… well, you get the point.
What I don’t get is why you seem troubled by this. If it’s true, shouldn’t it be a good sign? Impending Judgement Day and all of that?
I’ll second this, and I’ll add= what does your seeing Jesus have to do with Solana being the anti-christ, anyway? This thread has been derailed, yes?
I always get a thrill out of discussing stuff like the end of times and the new antichrist and so on with my friends, because urban legends are exciting.
Not real, but entertaining.
Those are also nitpicks, at least to the extent that “How do you know you weren’t asleep?” is a nitpick. Really it seems your objection is “Stop asking questions that might make me wrong, but ask questions assuming I am perfectly correct”. It seems a bit dishonest to frame the matter as one of nitpicking vs. reasonable questions when it’s just one of you not wanting questions you dislike.
Out of interest, though, ok. Why would Jesus appear like that to you, Have you had any other encounters with Jesus since then, Why did you call him the man from the river?
Somewhere in Revelation, and I think other places in the Bible, too, it says something about people not being able to buy or sell unless they have the number of the Beast. The tech things I mentioned are up and running, including the scanners in the grocery stores.
It just seems (to me) like these things are just the sort of tools that would be needed to take control of the world as noted in the Bible. And for myself personally, I am mindful of what I was told during my UFO encounter (which I wrote about in this place some months back) in which I was told, “the entire North American continent is becoming mechanized.”
I only know what I said, that I vaguely recall Him looking like the way one most often sees Him in paintings.
There wasn’t such a time. But people in the past made the same claims - that their era was unique and they had people and inventions that had never occurred in the past. Every time is unlike any other time in human history.
In a hundred years, there will be people saying “Now is the endtime. When in the past did we ever face dangers like anti-matter bombs and nanotech plagues and quark probability disrupters?”
When I was somewhere around eight or nine, I saw Satan peering through my bedroom window. I was absolutely convinced of it; it frightened me terribly since I believed I was doomed. I also had a grandmother who spewed hellfire and brimstone almost nonstop and I was forced to attend a hardshell Southern Baptist church. It didn’t seem at all strange to me that Satan would make a special trip to a small town in Texas just to look through my bedroom window.
I haven’t seen him since, though.
The “Beast” and “antichrists” (plural) are two different things. The Beast of Revelation is a coded reference to the Roman Emperor (probably Domitian). The number is a numerical anagram for Nero (it was popularly believed in the late 1st Century that Domitian was Nero in disguise). The “mark” of the Beast was a symbolic reference to coins with the Emperor’s picture on them (Roman slaves were branded on their hands or on their foreheads. The author of Revelation was saying that forcing Jews and Christians to use graven images as currency symbolicall branded them as slaves).
Almost everything in Revelation that gets popularly interpreted by some Protestant evangelical groups as "endtimes’ prophecies is really allegorical commentary and comfort regarding Roman persecution at the end of the first century.
The word “antichrist” is used in the Epistles of John to refer to people (probably Gnostics) that author regards as apostate Christians or false prophets. It does not refer to a single person but rival Christian sects and it has nothing whatever to do with the Beast of Revelation.
In point of fact, the Bible has no substantial predictions about the endtimes and does not predict than an evil, supernatural supervillain will take over the world. You can rest easy, Dr. Solana is not the Antichrist.
I regard all the many mystical experiences of my life as being like a schematic that makes a certain large picture of things that pertain to all of this and all of us, as if they were connecting dots. And so when you say that I should be happy about this doom in front of us and around us, I reflect on two out-of-the-blue things that happened to me years ago. They were strange and horrible beyond belief and, I suspect, are soon coming down the pike.
I won’t say anything more about them in this place, but even if you’re an atheist you really ought to get on your knees one time in your life and pray that I’m wrong!
Well, I gotta say, your comments do make me feel a “little” better. 
In your second to the last sentence, shouldn’t you qualify it with an “I suspect,” or something as such? I seems presumptuous.
Please reread his reply. He did not ask it the way you framed it here. There was a touch of sarcasm.
He appeared to me because I’d said to myself around the day before, “I am ready.” It was His way of letting me know that the test would soon take place. I failed.
Yes, He has a number of times and in different ways for different reasons.
I was with Him before I came into this world near a river. He and another person watched me float up into the sky … as I forgot what things were about as I headed towards earth and totally lost awareness.
I am not a gameplaying guy when it comes to serious matters, and so while I don’t like being coy by not being clear via giving a full context account of things, I am too tired at the moment to continue and, too, I have endured my quota of ridicule for the time being.
Peace.
Off to Great Debates.
I thought this whole Rapture stuff was started by some Victorian guy–the belief in the End Times etc.
I just don’t see it. Yeah-porn is prevalent and so are weapons. Victorian London had many more brothels than it does today–so what? In medieval times, every man or half grown lad was armed–and some of the women, too. So what, again?
Humankind hasn’t changed much in the last millenia–the ways in which our basic humanity (good and bad)is expressed have changed somewhat with technology, but scratch the surface and we’re still pretty much the way we were “back in the day.”
Not to pick on the OP, but I do wish these fundamentalist/End Time believers would oh, put a little faith in the God they’re always on about–wasn’t Jesus’ main message that God is love and that we should treat one another well?
I don’t believe in the Anti-Christ in any way shape or form. I do believe that people are very capable of creating their own hells, right here on Earth. I also don’t believe in heaven–hell, I’m not sure I believe in God at this point. I do know that ominous statements by people who cannot think rationally regarding what will happen to us all phase me not a bit.