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[rev79]

Run for your lives!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Guest_Tearz4Fearz_*]

Roll your eyes all you want..then face reality.

Biblical prophecy forecasted these times we are now living in. It has been predicted and will come to pass. The bible says the world will end in fire, everything in this imperfect world is fleeting and nothing will remain. Souls are what matter, so the earth will pass away but my (Jesus) words will never pass away. I try to keep the planet clean, recycle and use cloth bags and the whole shebang, knowing that its utterly pointless (but at least I try) knowing that there is so much pollution and garbage piling up everywhere that there is no point to trying to save this planet (even though we still do not need to add to it). There are too many problems in this world that will never be solved-but eternal life with Christ (the savior of the world) and being saved from sin is the biggest gift anyone could give to anyone else, but this is eternity and not this fleeting time on a dying planet.

[Sarielite]

Roll your eyes all you want..then face reality.

Biblical prophecy forecasted these times we are now living in. It has been predicted and will come to pass. The bible says the world will end in fire, everything in this imperfect world is fleeting and nothing will remain.

Every generation of fringe Christian (and non-Christian) groups have said that. Early Christianity was, in essence, an apocalypse cult; the early followers of the Christian doctrine believed that they were living in the end times and that the followers of Jesus would live to see the end of the world. Clearly that didn't happen, but that belief reappears throughout the intervening ~1,900 years.

One of the most ridiculous and poignant examples of how wrong every generation of apocalypse Christian sects have been is with the Seventh-day Adventists. The Millerites were a group led by a guy named William Miller who predicted Jesus would return in 1844. His initial prediction was false, so he came up with a new date, and then another, and another, until he lost most of his followers and credibility.

The whole sordid affair served only to distract Miller's adherents from the real issues of the day: slavery, immigration, economic injustice, and a rapidly-industrializing society. Rather than apply their creative energies toward solving the problems in 19th century America and Europe, they devoted their lives to a charlatan's self-aggrandizing beliefs.

The whole concept of the end times is absurd, and it's even more absurd to believe that it's taking place now. The only evidence presented for an end-of-the-world scenario is a bunch of poorly-translated and idiomatic writing from the first century that may or may not actually describe anything applicable to us. And that's if you accept that the narrative aspects of the bible has any basis in fact or reality--a suggestion I reject wholesale.