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DeitySlayer
President of Chindia
Hell no.
AxisMundi
E Pluribus Unum!!!
When the same book claims the earth is the 6,000 year old flat center of the universe?
no.
tomato1236
Ninja Master
Sure he is. I mean, as the good book says, no man knoweth the time of his coming...so if the same book declared the time of his coming, that would be pretty ridiculous, no?
fallingblood
Agnostic Theist
According to the Bible, it took some 4,000 years for Jesus to come the first time. It wouldn't be illogical to assume it would take a long time for his second coming then.
*disclaimer* I don't believe in the second coming. As far as I'm concerned, Jesus is dead.
*disclaimer* I don't believe in the second coming. As far as I'm concerned, Jesus is dead.
I must believe it; I am a Christian, after all. 
Zadok
Zadok
According to my understanding the time will not exceed a maximum of 200 years from our time. (the minimum possible has passed) Yes, I believe there is still time and but a few promises to be fulfilled.
Zadok
Blackdog22
Well-Known Member
Yeah, but didn't Jesus say before the generation before him passed he would fulfill the remaining prophesies or was that a mistranslation? Also isn't the Bible written by God? Wouldn't God knoweth? Wouldn't Jesus being God mean that Jesus Kneweth?
Beta said:
Woah, woah, woah.... We messed with Gods invisible calender? Please explain how we did this. If God had a calender wouldn't it be posted in the Bible somewhere? As a matter of fact if it isn't posted in the Bible how do you know about this secret, invisible calender?
You have to send me your secrets Beta I am begging you. Whisper me so we can exchange numbers so that I may know of your God like abilities.
Venatoris
Active Member
No, not as far as I know. Divinely inspired maybe but written by men nonetheless.
ZooGirl02
Well-Known Member
Of course Jesus is still coming back. The Bible says nobody knows the day or the hour of His return but only the Father. It also says it will be unexpected:
"Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken; then will appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory;
(Matthew 24:29-30 RSV)
For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the archangel's call, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first; then we who are alive, who are left, shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air; and so we shall always be with the Lord.
(1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 RSV)
Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour.
(Matthew 25:13 RSV)
Watch therefore--for you do not know when the master of the house will come, in the evening, or at midnight, or at cockcrow, or in the morning-- lest he come suddenly and find you asleep. And what I say to you I say to all: Watch."
(Mark 13:35-37 RSV)
You also must be ready; for the Son of man is coming at an unexpected hour."
(Luke 12:40 RSV)
The Lord is not slow about his promise as some count slowness, but is forbearing toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance. But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a loud noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fire, and the earth and the works that are upon it will be burned up.
(2 Peter 3:9-10 RSV)
Remember then what you received and heard; keep that, and repent. If you will not awake, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come upon you.
(Revelation 3:3 RSV)
Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away. "But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only.
(Matthew 24:35-36 RSV)
"Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken; then will appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory;
(Matthew 24:29-30 RSV)
For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the archangel's call, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first; then we who are alive, who are left, shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air; and so we shall always be with the Lord.
(1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 RSV)
Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour.
(Matthew 25:13 RSV)
Watch therefore--for you do not know when the master of the house will come, in the evening, or at midnight, or at cockcrow, or in the morning-- lest he come suddenly and find you asleep. And what I say to you I say to all: Watch."
(Mark 13:35-37 RSV)
You also must be ready; for the Son of man is coming at an unexpected hour."
(Luke 12:40 RSV)
The Lord is not slow about his promise as some count slowness, but is forbearing toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance. But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a loud noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fire, and the earth and the works that are upon it will be burned up.
(2 Peter 3:9-10 RSV)
Remember then what you received and heard; keep that, and repent. If you will not awake, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come upon you.
(Revelation 3:3 RSV)
Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away. "But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only.
(Matthew 24:35-36 RSV)
Amos 3v7 would give you a little more enlightenment if you were not as skeptical and critical :yes:
How does man mess with God's calendar ? By not observing God's APPOINTED TIMES. Ignoring them has thrown us right off-course and that is why today nobody knows the time or the hour of Christ's return - except his servants who have walked with him.
Is anybody else still waiting for the second coming of the Great Prophet Zarquon?
PolyHedral
Superabacus Mystic
"A wizard is never late, Frodo Baggins..."
...Isn't this just another form of the Unexpected Hanging paradox?
No, I know when the second coming is. What I'm wondering is when he appears the first time.fantôme profane;2172005 said:
fallingblood
Agnostic Theist
Not a mistranslation at all. Just a failed prophecy. Jesus was talking about something very different as well. He was talking about the issuing in of the Kingdom of God which would take the place of the Kingdom of Earth, specifically, Rome. That was the main topic of what Jesus was preaching about. And some scholars even believe that he thought that the Kingdom of God was already starting to take place here.
sandy whitelinger
Veteran Member
We possibly might have another 18,000 to go.
ninerbuff
godless wonder
Um using the bible scripture as proof isn't proof.
