You know that feeling you have toward the May 21st people?

[_MrStakhanovite]

The "you don't know/understand everything I believe therefore your arguments are invalid" defense never fails to crack me up.

An argument is invalid if it never touches what someone believes, which is the problem.

[_MrStakhanovite]

Most Christians believe in some sort of end times/second coming doctrine. It's all equally absurd.

This is exactly what I'm trying to say with that comic (which someone else made and I just linked to). I don't care that the 38,000+ christian denominations can't agree about what to call the mythical event End-Of-The-World-When-Jebus-Comes-Back. It's absurd no matter how you slice it. And it's sliced 38,000+ ways currently.

Did I hurt someone's feelings in pointing this out? So be it.

But what you end up saying is, “I don’t know dick about what I’m making fun of!” You are a perfect example of a village atheist, the type Christian apologists drool over. You are the exact person they want to argue with, so they can tie you up and make you look like an idiot in front of some crowd.

Camping has a very unique theology that is all his own, he got kicked out of the CRC because of it. He thinks all of those others in your picture are going to hell once they are judged. He thinks Jesus died three times, which every single person that is compared with him would have called him a heretic right then and there. Not one person shown there would have anything nice to say about Camping.

Want to make fun of Camping? Fine, but don’t do it in a way where you are just making fun of your own ignorance.

[_Buffalo]

Mark 14:62

61 Again the high priest asked him, “Are you the Messiah, the Son of the Blessed One?”

62 “I am,” said Jesus. “And you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Mighty One and coming on the clouds of heaven.”

And?

If a person is a preterist, historicist, or an idealist when it comes to eschatology, the ways of exegeting that passage are legion. The Son of Man is a loaded phrase with a lot of baggage, it could very well mean that the humble poor will be the ones sitting at the right hand of God (as per Matthew 5).

Giving one verse, devoid of context, and in English doesn’t establish much.

Jesus constantly referred to himself as the son of man. He said that the high priest would see the second coming of Christ - Jesus expected it to be very, very soon. You know, just like all the Christians who followed him.