The End of the World is Coming

[dpwozney]

As for the rapture, it has been predicted for at least every decade for 1700 years.

Camping had insisted that the so-called "Rapture" -- when good Christians are swept up to heaven and the not-so-good stay behind to suffer until the end of the world -- would begin with powerful earthquakes at 6:00 pm local time on Saturday in each of the world's regions.

During the rapture (1 Corinthians 15:51-54, 1 Thessalonians 4:14-17), Jesus comes as a thief (Revelation 16:15). Therefore, God does not employ prophets to prophesy the day or the hour of the rapture.

The coming of the Son of man to earth, as referred to in Matthew 24:30, will not be the Son of man coming as a thief, because of all of the preceding signs in Matthew 24:5-29.

"The Bible guarantees the end of the world will begin with Judgment Day May 21, 2011."

(AFP) ... WASHINGTON — The end of the world is still coming, just a little later than originally planned, said a US radio minister after his prediction that Judgment Day would come last weekend flopped.

The time of the rapture is the end of the age, the present church age, not the end of the world. The earth abideth forever (Ecclesiastes 1:4).

"Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen." (Ephesians 3:21)

 

[Cliffy]

During the rapture (1 Corinthians 15:51-54, 1 Thessalonians 4:14-17), Jesus comes as a thief (Revelation 16:15). Therefore, God does not employ prophets to prophesy the day or the hour of the rapture.

The coming of the Son of man to earth, as referred to in Matthew 24:30, will not be the Son of man coming as a thief, because of all of the preceding signs in Matthew 24:5-29.



The time of the rapture is the end of the age, the present church age, not the end of the world. The earth abideth forever (Ecclesiastes 1:4).

"Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen." (Ephesians 3:21)

Interesting, but what are your thoughts on the matter? Or do you have any?

 

[JLM]

Every day is a new beginning of the end of the world. You gotta wonder what kind of minds gets obsessed with this sh*t! :lol:

 

[talloola]

Every day is a new beginning of the end of the world. You gotta wonder what kind of minds gets obsessed with this sh*t! :lol:

sure glad its not you and me, my friend, we have much more interesting and constructive thoughts
each and every day.

life is 'only' so long, why clog it up with sludge.

 

[PoliticalNick]

Every day is a new beginning of the end of the world. You gotta wonder what kind of minds gets obsessed with this sh*t! :lol:

You mean I gotta be ready for the rapture every day? How the heck am I supposed to have any fun? ;-)

 

[ironsides]

Interesting, but what are your thoughts on the matter? Or do you have any?

:lol:

You mean I gotta be ready for the rapture every day? How the heck am I supposed to have any fun? ;-)

Live for today, for tomorrow may never come. Lets go out and max. out all our cards.

 

[eanassir]

So it is that listing some passage from a book is like me reading something to you from a story book and expecting it to have some deeper meaning to you...
As far as I know, not believe, there is no such thing as an after life.

It is like a threat you received (from God, not from me so that someone may think it in some way or another); it is like you are warned and you pay no attention; so it is up to you to believe or not ... to receive such threat seriously or to take the warning in jest and heedlessness.
Or one may take the subject of the afterlife seriously, and win at last.
And you now say there is no afterlife; but if you die and discover it is true that you have become a soul in the afterlife world, what will you then do?

 

[Unforgiven]

It is like a threat you received (from God, not from me so that someone may think it in some way or another); it is like you are warned and you pay no attention; so it is up to you to believe or not ... to receive such threat seriously or to take the warning in jest and heedlessness.

Or one may take the subject of the afterlife seriously, and win at last.
And you now say there is no afterlife; but if you die and discover it is true that you have become a soul in the afterlife world, what will you then do?

A warning to bow down or else? Meh, I'll take door number two please. There are plenty of people right now warning me that I better do this or that or I might pay the price later on. Not that there has been even one single verifiable example of the presences of some higher form of existence than I am experiencing right now. What's more you telling me that what you say is a warning from god is still just you telling me something you read in a book written by yet another person. God could simply come along an tell me itself what it wants of me and I would be happy to oblige. Instead I am expected to trust your interpretation of what someone else writes and insists it's what God wants?

Please don't take me for a fool.

I will stand to be judged on my words and actions I would hope anyway. If I am judged on how obedient I am or how much I show everyone else here my huge support of God then that judgement probably won't mean much of anything at all to me anyway.

 

[eanassir]

Well, of course the end of the world is coming, there's no room for doubt about that. The sun won't last forever, and without the sun there's no chance that any form of life as we know it could exist on this planet. But that's many billion years in the future, and humanity will in all probability be long gone by then anyway. Most of the species that have ever lived are now extinct, and very few species last more than a few tens of millions of years, that's just the way nature operates, extinction is normal and predictable and there's no reason to think it won't happen to us too. And most days I think the planet would be better off without us.

Billions of years in mathmatics ... it is about infinity

Anyhow, no one knows what meal he will eat tomorrow on the breakfast.

1- There had been a planet in an orbit between Mars and Jupiter; and for that planet it had its Doomsday earlier than the rest of the solar system planets. The same thing may happen to Earth.

So God warned people of a similar thing may happen to them, and God can then break up their earth like that planet.
As in the Quran 67: 16

أَأَمِنتُم مَّن فِي السَّمَاء أَن يَخْسِفَ بِكُمُ الأَرْضَ فَإِذَا هِيَ تَمُورُ​

The explanation:

(Do you [people] feel secure that [God] Who is in heaven will not cleave the earth with you, [as did He cleave another earth with its people before you], so that it then [shall] violently heave?)

The interpretation: Have you [people] taken security from the punishment and might of God ? Aren’t you afraid that He will destroy your Earth, as had He destroyed an inhabited earth before you, then the pieces of that destroyed planet started to swim and move about, i.e. swim in the space, and none had survived alive, and as such will your earth be if He breaks it up.​

The mistake of Astronomers about the Asteroids 1

2- If we see the changes that afflicted Venus and before it Mercury, why not such changes may afflict the Earth after these two planets?

 

[Dexter Sinister]

...why not such changes may afflict the Earth... ?

No reason why not, in fact it's certain. There was a time in the past when the Earth was unsuitable for life, and there will be a time in the future when the Earth won't be suitable for life again. In the meantime there will continue to be major extinction events like the five we know have already happened, until the last one when everything goes. I don't see any religious significance in that, there are adequate naturalistic explanations for it all.

 

[Cliffy]

Billions of years in mathmatics ... it is about infinity

Anyhow, no one knows what meal he will eat tomorrow on the breakfast.

1- There had been a planet in an orbit between Mars and Jupiter; and for that planet it had its Doomsday earlier than the rest of the solar system planets. The same thing may happen to Earth.

So God warned people of a similar thing may happen to them, and God can then break up their earth like that planet.
As in the Quran 67: 16

أَأَمِنتُم مَّن فِي السَّمَاء أَن يَخْسِفَ بِكُمُ الأَرْضَ فَإِذَا هِيَ تَمُورُ​

The explanation:

(Do you [people] feel secure that [God] Who is in heaven will not cleave the earth with you, [as did He cleave another earth with its people before you], so that it then [shall] violently heave?)

The interpretation: Have you [people] taken security from the punishment and might of God ? Aren’t you afraid that He will destroy your Earth, as had He destroyed an inhabited earth before you, then the pieces of that destroyed planet started to swim and move about, i.e. swim in the space, and none had survived alive, and as such will your earth be if He breaks it up.​

The mistake of Astronomers about the Asteroids 1

2- If we see the changes that afflicted Venus and before it Mercury, why not such changes may afflict the Earth after these two planets?

And if it happened tomorrow or in a billion years, what could anybody do about it? How can anybody prepare for something like the total destruction of the planet? If you did nothing but prepare for that eventuality, what would you have accomplished? Nothing. You would still be dead along with everybody else. So why bother even thinking about it?

 

[Dexter Sinister]

Well, once you're convinced that some part of your personality will survive the death of your body and live on forever if you behave a certain way, then you might decide it's your right and duty to try to make everyone behave that way, even if you have to threaten to kill them to do it...

 

[Cliffy]

Well, once you're convinced that some part of your personality will survive the death of your body and live on forever if you behave a certain way, then you might decide it's your right and duty to try to make everyone behave that way, even if you have to threaten to kill them to do it...

That may be how some of the religious behave, but I do believe in the possibility of some form of continued consciousness that does not require me to behave in any particular way or believe in some psycho god or even convince anybody what I believe is true. I don't think a person has to be religious to be a wingnut or that all religious people are wingnuts, but it seems to help many.

 

[JLM]

Well, once you're convinced that some part of your personality will survive the death of your body and live on forever if you behave a certain way, then you might decide it's your right and duty to try to make everyone behave that way, even if you have to threaten to kill them to do it...

Good post, but the end of the body doesn't necessarily mean the end of the "running gear". But nobody knows for sure.

 

[lone wolf]

Part of me will live on.... I have the grandkids to prove it. Actual me will eventually crumble into Earth - just the way it is meant to be. God, in my heart and mind, is a personal thing. It prevents me from deluding myself into believing that I AM God.

Is the end of the world coming soon? It is for those diabolical dandelions I'm going out to lop heads off as soon as I finish this coffee....