re: If the Rapture happened, and you were left behind..yes or no to the Mark?

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Would you take the Mark of the beast?


What does this mean?

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its a religious thread according to the dominant paradigm when taken literally.

don't feed the troll.

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I thought God judged people on how they lived their life, not about getting a mark

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If this were true, and your salvation was based on you living a "good" life, then every single person to ever live would split the gates of hell wide open. And here's why...

1. Romans 6:23 - For the wages of sin is death.

2. Romans 3:23 - For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.

3. Ephesians 2:8 - For by grace are you saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God

4. Isaiah 64:6 - But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

This tells us that anyone who sins is bound to die. And this death is not just physical death, rather it's spiritual death. It also tells us that everyone has sinned and even the "best" person falls woefully short of God's sinless standard. Thus, on our own, we are doomed. No matter how "good" you try to be, it's impossible for you to work your way to a state of grace. Our only hope is through God's grace, not our works.

Because from the moment you enter this world (a dominion that Lucifer was given) Satans goal is to eternally separate you from the creator. He accomplishes this through deceit and the twisting of truth your entire life. His greatest FU to God is to separate the creation from the creator in regards to eternity. The eternal punishment does not occur until ones fate has been sealed. It is irreversible and is his one and only goal when meddling in the affairs of the creation. This is his only available FU to God. It is not about knowingly worshiping Satan. It is about rejecting Gods grace.

We accept that grace through faith AND good works. You can't discount works as being an integral part of salvation.

Matthew 25
34 “Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. 35 For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, 36 I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’


James 2

14 What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, 16 and one of you says to them, “Depart in peace, be warmed and filled,” but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what does it profit? 17 Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.