The Rapture is scheduled to happen tomorrow on May 21, 2011, but what will happen to the pets left behind when the saved are taken up into Heaven to be with Jesus?
Eternal Earth-bound Pets to the rescue. According to the organization’s website:
You've committed your life to Jesus. You know you're saved. But when the Rapture comes, what will happen to your loving pets? Eternal Earth-Bound Pets takes that burden off your mind:
We are a group of dedicated animal lovers, and atheists. Each
Eternal Earth-Bound Pet representative is a confirmed atheist, and as such will still be here on Earth after you've received your reward. Our network of animal activists are committed to step in when you step up to Jesus.
We are currently active in 26 states, employing 40 pet rescuers. Our representatives have been screened to ensure that they are atheists, animal lovers, are moral / ethical with no criminal background, have the ability and desire to rescue your pet and the means to retrieve them and ensure their care for your pet's natural life.
Eternal Earth-bound Pets is not offering a free service: keep in mind, the unsaved will still need to eke out a living here on Earth:
Our service is plain and simple; our fee structure is reasonable.
For $135.00 we will guarantee that should the Rapture occur within ten (10) years of receipt of payment, one pet per residence will be saved. Each additional pet at your residence will be saved for an additional $20.00 fee. A small price to pay for your peace of mind and the health and safety of your four legged and feathered friends.
For more details, go here:
Are You Saved?
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Some non-Catholics teach that all you have to do to achieve salvation is to accept Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savoir, and your salvation is assured in this life. You only have to make a once in a lifetime commitment and no matter what you do for the rest of your life, you can be certain that you will go to Heaven when you die.
Once you do this, it is impossibility that you will ever lose your salvation. That train of thought, however, is not Biblical, and in reality it is a sin of presumption. Jesus did not die just so we could sin.
Let us examine Holy Scripture and see what it has to say.
"For if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is the Lord, and believe in your heart that GOD has raised Him from the dead, you shall be saved." Romans 10:9
"For whoever calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." Romans 10:13
This is what St. Paul said. Some non-Catholics use these two verses, taken completely out of context, to try to provide justification for their false, man made, "Once saved, always saved" belief.
A text without a context is only a pretext. If they would only read further on in the same chapter they would clearly see the context of Romans 10:9 and 13, and the fallacy of this false belief:
Romans 10:14 "But how are men to call upon him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without a preacher?"
In this verse we see that in order to properly hear the word of GOD so that they may believe, there is a condition attached.
They cannot "believe in Him" unless they have heard it, and have heard it from a preacher.
Does that verse mean any preacher, even a false one (2Cor 11:12-15)?
No, definitely not, for Holy Scripture teaches that it could not be just any preacher, but only a preacher who is sent by GOD.
The word for "sent", as used in the Greek language of which the book of Romans was written, is apostello.
Doesn't that sound like another Biblical word for which we are all familiar?
Apostello means to send out properly on a mission. From apostello we get the Greek word "apostolos", meaning "Apostle". The Greek word "Apostolos" means "he who is sent".
So who are the "they" who are those sent, and by whom are "they" sent? the same Greek word, apostello, is used by Jesus Christ when He spoke to His "Apostolos" in John 20:21:
Jesus said to them again, "Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you."
It is obvious that those who are sent (apostello) by GOD are also given authority by Jesus Christ who is GOD.
That authority was delegated to the Apostles alone by Jesus Christ.