Poll for Christians

[Just_me_Mike]

When it comes to the end of the world. Do you think it will be in ours or our grandchildrens' lifetime?

If you do what makes you feel that way, and if you don't what makes you feel that way?

Thanks!

 

[ChristineES]

How about a 4th option: I haven't the vaguest idea.

 

[Dunemeister]

Or a fifth: It won't happen at all. The earth will perdure, this I know, for the bible tells me so.

 

[Kathryn]

I vote for the fourth option. I haven't the vaguest idea.

 

[Katzpur]

Yeah, I'd have to go with the fourth option, too. You should have had one that said "Nobody knows."

 

[Just_me_Mike]

The 3rd option was suppose to be the "I haven't a clue." Seeing we will all not be here in 2,000 years, so we would have no clue.
Sorry for the cloudiness

 

[Enlighten]

How about a 4th option: I haven't the vaguest idea.

I vote this if the option was there

 

[uu_sage]

I don't believe in a "second coming" or an end times theology.

 

[Katzpur]

The 3rd option was suppose to be the "I haven't a clue." Seeing we will all not be here in 2,000 years, so we would have no clue.
Sorry for the cloudiness

That wouldn't work for me since I actually do believe we are living in the last days at this time. As to how long the last days will go on, though, I don't know. The Second Coming could happen in my lifetime, my children's lifetimes, or my grandchildren's lifetimes. I really don't know. My guess is that it will be closer to hundreds of years than to thousands of years, though.

 

[BruceDLimber]

Greetings!

You clearly made a big omission when you constructed your poll!:

We Baha'is assert:

1. That the End already came and went about a century and a half ago (and that most folks missed it, as the "thief in the night" description promised), and
2. That the KJV was mistranslated. The word in the original Greek is "eras," which means "world" or "age." And the translators picked the wrong meaning: what the text in fact speaks of is the end of the Age!

Peace,

Bruce

 

[Just_me_Mike]

Greetings!

You clearly made a big omission when you constructed your poll!:

We Baha'is assert:

1. That the End already came and went about a century and a half ago (and that most folks missed it, as the "thief in the night" description promised), and
2. That the KJV was mistranslated. The word in the original Greek is "eras," which means "world" or "age." And the translators picked the wrong meaning: what the text in fact speaks of is the end of the Age!

Peace,

Bruce

No I am pretty sure I posted this in same faith section. Maybe you just missed that. No big deal.

 

[Kajdav]

I think that most LDS believe that the second coming will come soon. I think that it has been on its way for quite a while. Armageddon won't happen in one day, there has to be events to lead up to it and whatnot. It is also taught in the LDS church that the earth won't be destroyed until after the millennium, the 1000 years when Christ reins. So, technically, I should have voted the third option, but I assumed you meant the end of days in general, so I voted the first one.

 

[BruceDLimber]

No I am pretty sure I posted this in same faith section.

No problem: EVERY Baha'i world wide accepts both Christ and the Bible (and indeed, can't be Baha'i without doing so!), and so clearly falls under the Christian umbrella at least as much as do many other Christians!

Our specific beliefs may differ from yours, but so do those of many other Christians.

So my point holds.

(And BTW, for Kajdav, Armageddon is now a historical event, also!: That battle took place on the Plain of Megiddo in 1917 near the end of World War I, when British General Allenby defeated the Ottoman Turks there <thus, among other things, saving the life of a prominent Baha'i in Haifa whom the Ottomans were about to crucify for his religion>.)

Peace,

Bruce

 

[Arkholt]

Yeah, I'd have to go with the fourth option, too. You should have had one that said "Nobody knows."

Or "Only one Person knows, and He's not tellin'."

 

[Thesavorofpan]

Greetings!

You clearly made a big omission when you constructed your poll!:

We Baha'is assert:

1. That the End already came and went about a century and a half ago (and that most folks missed it, as the "thief in the night" description promised), and
2. That the KJV was mistranslated. The word in the original Greek is "eras," which means "world" or "age." And the translators picked the wrong meaning: what the text in fact speaks of is the end of the Age!

Peace,

Bruce

If this theory was true then, whats the point of obeying God's law? If he already came then were pretty much screwed and if you did read the rest of Revelations where all the destruction? Where the battle of Armageddon? I'm not trying to bash you or anything its just I saw some loop wholes As in my faith we believe that the second coming is very near but we don't know when because the bible says that.

 

[Mister Emu]

Or "Only one Person knows, and He's not tellin'."

Sorry, I'm just not in a sharing mood

I'd vote no idea... if it were an option

 

[angellous_evangellous]

I don't know. It could be today or a million years from now.

 

[Quiddity]

No matter when it is, I'll never be prepared for it.

I haven't the foggiest idea when it will happen.

 

[te_lanus]

I Don't think it is going to happen very soon.

Or "Only one Person knows, and He's not tellin'.

Methinks this is very true

 

[BruceDLimber]

Greetings!

If this theory was true then, whats the point of obeying God's law?

The same as it's always been! So why do you ask?

f you did read the rest of Revelations where all the destruction? Where the battle of Armageddon?

I already answered the question about Armageddon in post #13 if you bother to read it!

And the destruction in Revelation is metaphor: it has to do with the fall of old religious concepts and the old order, and the establishment of the new!

There are whole books explaining all this! You can find several online at:

www.bahai-library.org

if you look inthe "Books" section. I'll specifically point out those by Riggs (for which, BTW, I am an editor and indexer).

Peace,

Bruce