Poor judgment (and language) about Judgment Day
Wilson Gray
hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Sat May 21 21:58:46 UTC 2011
As Garry Trudeau, speaking through Zonker, pointed out in yesterday's
strip, Jesus said:
"Of that day and hour knoweth no man, nay, not the angels of heaven,
but My Father only."
-Matthew, 24:36
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain
On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Judgment Day is beyond time. That's how it works.
>
> The dead, past and present, are /were/ will be judged right "now," if that
> idea has any relevance to Eternity.
>
> And theologians will tell you it doesn't.
>
> When it comes to Eternity, even the laws of deduction could be wrong, if
> that's how Eternity rolls. Â Ask a theologian.
>
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