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Because of the vaguely insurance-oriented tinge to the business model, though, it does raise a very key issue: If you're (the hypothetical "you") so committed
by abalashov 16y ago
Because of the vaguely insurance-oriented tinge to the business model, though, it does raise a very key issue:
If you're (the hypothetical "you") so committed to your concrete, literal beliefs about rapture, why won't you put your money where your mouth is?
If my faith in the imminent end of times, or some other, more minor prophecy of my faith burned with the strength of a thousand suns, I would cash out all my assets and put them in a betting pool in support of it!
- gyardley 16y agoProbably because the 'imminent' bit is questionable. Matthew 24:36 - "No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father." Certain preachers have seen 'signs' of the rapture's imminence - Hal Lindsay's made many ridiculous predictions over the years - but these have all been based on Biblical interpretation, while the 'no one knows about the day or the hour' passages are quite clear. Of course, the rapture itself is based on some rather interesting interpretations of something in the Book of Daniel. Widespread belief in it is less than a century old.