It will be over for them, but my point was that the mark does something to their heart to sear their will. the effect would be the same, the verse you quoted doesn’t have anything to do with that.

Stop mixing your own philosophies with God’s word. You don’t have to fill in any blanks. And your assumptions are reckless.

By telling people that you don’t think that taking the mark of the beast means “it’s over for them” is not only wrong, but a lie and could mislead people about the serious consequences of receiving the mark. If you don’t take it, you die. If you do take it, you die.

Check yourself. Before God does.

The movie was fun – go see it – but don’t even start to believe it. We need to fund 2 days of curriculum in our schools to combat the wrong thinking it will trigger.

My point is that we have so much information about anything and everything at our immediate disposal, anytime that we need it, as quickly as we need it, and from whomever we need that information from. Is it possible, that because infomation moves so much more quickly in our time period, that maybe that’s why we hear about these “rumors-of-wars”?? Over 100 years ago, or even 1000 years ago, one side of the world had no idea what was happening on the other, until many years later, maybe even hundreds.

Is it possible, that all of these hurricanes, forest fires, earthquakes, volcanic activity, and whatever other natural disasters that could possible occur…that they all occur “more often” because we know of them exactly when they happen?? Is it possible that all of these events are actually, in reality, not out of the norm for our planet?? Do we just think that they are happening more often than they did in history because we have the technology now to reach into the farthest corners of the earth and deepest depths of the sea and to farthest reaches the universe that we can know right now exactly when something is happening?

Have all of our scientist and geologists and acheologists and any other “-ist’s” of the world really sat down and compared all of their findings and documented information to see the patterns, to show us, the human race, that the events of today are increasing, or are they just a part of a regular pattern of events throughout the world’s history that our media, extremists, and conspiracy theorists have just hyped up on to get our attention and to distract us from living ordinary lives?

I’m almost 30 years old, and no, I do not have a college degree, nor am I a scholar by any means on any particular subject. I’m just another lost soul out there seeking answers, but hoping to not be deceived as well. I grew up in a very Bible-based christian denomination, but as I have gotten older and started to question a lot of what I was taught to believe, and due to certain life-experiences, have changed denominational affiliations a few times and have had the opportunity to learn what different christian denominations believe about the Bible. I am a man who believes in God, and in Jesus Christ, but I often find it very difficult to believe that every single word in the Bible applies to our culture, our generation, and/or our circumstances of today.

So with the questions I asked above, I’m wondering if the discussions we have here about the year 2012, or any other “end-times” theories floating around out there, if any of this stuff is easier to explain and less complicated than we have made it out to be? Could it just be because information is more easily obtainable in our generation than it was in generations past and extremist out there are screaming that the end is near when in reality, all of the bad things we hear about everyday are just a part of a natural cycle of events that repeat throuthout history?