I don't really understand the details of Christian Eschatology......
There is a hole in my understanding of Christianity!
Pre-trib, mid-trib, post-trib - I don't get it
And I'm not sure on what's supposed to happen once End Times begin
I cannot find a descent resource anywhere that can help me with this
Does anyone have any suggestions?
It gets worse. The context of your approach shows one version of this "end times" picture. The added question simply is: Why are there other versions in other belief systems? Then too, why do people always believe THEIR version is the CORRECT version?
Ever wonder why the Aztec believed that this was the end of the fifth world? Then too, the Hopi said this was the end of the fourth world. It could be a cultural start glitch, but the idea is still there.
Other beliefs have other definitions, and the story goes on and on.
What's happening here is basically the approach of "hallucinating reality." In other words, people never look into ANYTHING, and because of this, all they have are ideas they make up in their heads, and these made up / believed interpretations now become the answers. Basically this is the first part of the Dunning / Kruger Effect.
hallucinate (v.)
"to have illusions," 1650s, from Latin alucinatus (later hallucinatus), past participle of alucinari "wander (in the mind), dream; talk unreasonably, ramble in thought," probably from Greek alyein, Attic halyein "wander in mind, be at a loss, be beside oneself (with grief, joy, perplexity), be distraught," also "wander about," which probably is related to alaomai "wander about" [Barnhart, Klein]. The Latin ending probably was influenced by vaticinari "to prophecy," also "to rave." Older in English in a rare and now obsolete transitive sense "deceive" (c. 1600); occasionally used 19c. in transitive sense "to cause hallucination."
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The question isn't "does this end times story exist?" It's more like, is this a lost / confused historical story that connects with a repetitive science based event, that returns and kicks our butt over the millennia?
