Glitch,
Nope. The coconut thing was from the castle in the opening scene, before Arthur had met any of the other knights (ka-nig-its (said in outrageous French accent)) 
Letting my inner child run loose and break things.
Personally, I think a lot of Fundamentalists are going to be very disapointed it this is true. Many of them seem to be looking forward to the day when they can shout “I get to go to Heaven and you have to go to Hell! Nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah! Jesus loves me best and he doesn’t love you!”
Can you imagine how bitter some of these people are going to be if Jesus shows up and it turns out he really does love and forgive everyone and we all get to go to Heaven? I’m betting some Fundamentalists will refuse to go and insist that if gays and abortionists and Democrats and Jews and rock musicians and Catholics and TV weathermen are all going to Heaven they want to go to Hell instead.
this “Jesus” charachter, he wouldn’t be carrying a book called “to serve man” would he?
I don’t mind the rest, but DEMOCRATS??? 
Dammit Glitch that was my puchline!! 
You’ll pay for that!
Oh you’ll pay alright!
(pause here for my mad cackle)
Nemo:
This is basically what Christianity is all about. You just have to believe it. Quite simple really. BTW, any person who has even the slightest amount of love in them would not ever want anyone to go to hell.
Adam
“Life is hard…but God is good”
Well, someone posted above that Jesus will come, and people will go, and those left behind will fall victim to lies, so for all we know, he’s already come and gone and we’re all here talking out our collective butts.
But if Jesus just takes the ones that deserve to go, I think a lot of fundamentalists are going to look around one day and say, “Hey, where did everybody go?”
Esprix
That would be me.
No, that couldn’t be. We would have noticed a large majority of our population just up and disappear, all at the same time. Then we would stumble along through seven years of some pretty sucky stuff (aka tribulation). Then Jesus would return for his millennial reign on Earth. After 1000 years, Satan (not the poster) comes back for one last hurrah, but gets trounced, then the Earth goes bye-bye. A new Earth gets made. Perfect peace and love forever and ever, Amen.
If Jesus just takes the ones that deserve to go, he’s going back empty-handed. No one deserves to go to heaven. We’re all sinners. I believe that those who have honestly admitted their sins and asked Jesus to forgive them, and given their life to him will be going to heaven. Even democrats, murderers, homosexuals, you name it.
When he comes back there’ll be hell to pay. If he doesn’t start opening seals (biblical term for “can o’ whup-ass”) you’ll know it’s not him. If it is him, then most of us will be dead so it won’t matter anyway.
I’m going to have a Pit moment, but do you actually believe this? I mean, seriously - seriously?
You have one whacked-out religion.
Esprix
I’m still having problems with the Democrat thing.
Esprix…
If you lay out ANY religion, it seems a little far fetched.
What religion out there doesn’t have stuff as weird as this?
I seriously do. If I believe one part of the Bible (Jesus came to Earth as a baby born of a virgin, lived a perfect life, died on the cross for the sins of the world, came back to life on the third day, and ascended into heaven), might as well believe the rest. In for a penny, in for a pound.
No more whacked-out than any other, IMHO.
Scylla: Sorry about that. I thought it was just a fluke. I am not very bright sometimes … okay, most of the time.
Well, at least you’re honest about it. How do you, personally, reconcile the contradictions in the Bible?
No more whacked-out than any other, IMHO.
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Well, that’s true…
Esprix
Oh yeah?
Explain where the big bang came from. Then give me the second before the big bang.
Now explain what sparked life.
Freedom, dear, let’s not get our panties in a bunch. I was kidding, and there is another thread on “Is Atheism a religion,” so go check it out if you want to pick a fight.
Esprix
Uh, Freedom, theories (not beliefs) about what happened before the Big Bang or about abiogensis are not exclusive to–nor is a belief in them mandated by–atheism, so I don’t know what applicability your questions have. (And I’d rather not turn this into another “my religion/lack thereof is better than yours nyah nyah nyah” thread.)
But suppose Jesus is in a really forgiving mood, and let’s everyone in, not just Christians, but Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, Pagans, Wiccans, Scientologists, Satanists, Atheists, etc. After all, if Jesus can forgive you for any other sin or crime why can’t he forgive you for the wrong religious belief?
So why do we observe Good Friday and Easter Sunday? Was there another day, in addition to Saturday, between Friday and Sunday, 2000 years ago? If not, you can’t say he was resurrected on the third day.
Maybe he died on Good *Thursday and arose on Easter Sunday? Or he died on Good Friday and arose on Easter Monday?
That, or tradition has usurped the truth.
Freedom, PLEASE tell us you are NOT a Creationist!!! We’ve had enough of them around here lately. :mad:
When all else fails, ask Cecil.