Continuing on in the saga of how my latest article here was received:
http://www.escapeallthesethings.com/mark-beast-unpardonable-sin-rapture.htm
 
Thank you for all your responses, even the nasty ones (I learn from them all). Thanks to my plea yesterday, I received some nice emails confirming that others saw this view as correct also, so it's not all one-sided against as it first appeared. Just obviously the more emotional reactions people have the more likely they are to write.
 
The thing that surprised me about the reactions was not how so many disagreed.  I expected that.  I know my views are unconventional since I am non-denonminational.
 
No, the thing that surprised me was how people got the impression I was saying, "It's ok, come on, take the mark, it won't kill you!" when I really was not saying that all.  Then it snowballed and apparently the people who had not even read my article starting jumping in and reacting to this misconception and of course getting up in arms to vigourously state how wrong it is to take the mark, etc, such as this one entitled: "FOOLISH TO WORSHIP THE BEAST & HOPE TO BE REDEEMED DURING MILLENIUM".  Yes of course it's foolish and even directly forbidden and as my article states, you probably won't survive the 10 days of bowls of wrath to be redeemed during the millennium.  Not a good plan.  And not a plan I suggested.
 
By the way, my title "OK, Everybody. I Repent" was just to get your attention.  Nobody presented any evidence yet to make me change my mind on the real scriptural cost of taking the mark of the beast, but I do promise to continue to reconsider my beliefs and my actions every day in my habit of "daily repentance."  Yes, another one of my strange beliefs: That you do not repent just once to be saved, but you must constantly be turning from each new sin or wrong belief system you discover as you endure until the end to be saved.
 
Love and Kind Regards,
Tim McHyde
http://www.EscapeAllTheseThings.com
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