All Religions seem to Warn of a time when the World will fall into Darkness in Latter Days?

[rusra02]

Jesus did seem to mention false prophets and increasing wickedness in later days, and the love of many waning thin.

The Bible clearly teaches a time of great trouble called the last days. (2 Timothy 3:1-5) Jesus prophesied that during the time when he would take his power in heaven to rule as king, there would be a composite sign of his invisible presence, consisting of wars, food shortages, pestilence, earthquakes, and as you mentioned, increasing lawlessness and lack of love. (Matthew 24, Luke 21, Mark 13)

The evidence of these Bible prophesies being fulfilled in the 20th and now 21st centuries is abundant. We are living in the final part of the last days. Soon the prophecies concerning the end of this system will be fulfilled, when Christ takes over rulership of the earth, destroying all human governments, and bringing God's kingdom rule over the earth. (Revelation 19:11-21, 16:14-16, Daniel 2:44)

 

[BruceDLimber]

Bruce so even though the Buddha spoke very literally about the Maitreya, and Jesus spoke very literally about the anti-Christ, and Muhammad spoke very literally about the Dajjal, you don't accept it as literal? Muhammad said: "All the prophets warned of the dajjal, even Noah warned his people about it, but I will tell you something no prophet ever spoke. The dajjal, he will have only one eye."

Maitreya is one of the titles of Baha'u'llah, Founder of the Baha'i Faith (He is also known as the Fifth Buddha).

Indeed, we have a book titled Maitreya Buddha has Appeared."

I've never heard the term dajjal (you might find English works far better), and many prophecies must be taken metaphorically in any case, and this includes many instances of "literal speech" not explicitly stated to be literal-only.

Peace,

Bruce

 

[AxisMundi]

I don't like to obsess about the end of days. I'm not sure I believe it literal myself, but I have known in my study of religions that all of them seem to warn of a time when the world will follow a false teacher or teachers and fall into darkness. The Hindus say that in later times people will turn to worship of demons. The Christians say there will be an anti-Christ. Lao Tzu warned that in the future it would get harder and harder for people to find the universal integral way because of false teachings. The Buddha spoke of a time when humanity will fall into a state of error and forget the dharma, and then the Maitreya must come and restore the Buddha's teachings. The Muslims teach about a one-eyed figure called the Dajjal who claims to be God in the flesh and leads people astray. Even the ancient Kemetic (Egyptian) myths tell of a time when the worship of the gods of Egypt will be restored to the world, but then the end must come, and then the only one still awake when the world ends will be Wesir (Osiris). What does one make of this, when seeing that many religions seem to have such an idea? Is humanity headed for bad times ahead?

"All religions" is a generalization, Heretical, not all religions have an end-of-days scenario built in, and not all end-of-days scenarios are speaking of the end of the world.

Ragnarok spoke of the end of the Norse gods, for example, and I believe the Kemetic speaks of the end of the Egptian gods as well, if it isn't a story explaining Imhoteps III's reign.

Perhaps that story is like Revelations, a contemporary commentary taken by some later on to be a "prophesy".

 

[Kilgore Trout]

I find the world generally falls into darkness on a daily basis. The exact time depends on your latitude and the date.