Until our hero comes to the rescue God just lets it turn into a cesspool. How awesome of him. You know it isn't from lack of humans trying, nobody claims to be perfect. If it is a cesspool its cause thats what was created.
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World in chaos
- Thread starter InChrist
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Until our hero comes to the rescue God just lets it turn into a cesspool. How awesome of him. You know it isn't from lack of humans trying, nobody claims to be perfect. If it is a cesspool its cause thats what was created.
You mean the generic signs. Things that commonly happen?
InChrist
Free4ever
Maybe no one claims to be perfect, but plenty of people claim to be good enough to be in control of their own life, the lives of others, or things in this world without any acknowledgement or accountability to God the Creator and with no desire to seek His wisdom or guidance for life. It is pretty awesome of God to respect human will and allow us to see the consequences of our own actions. Rather than force humans to submit He waits for us to come to the realization of our need to seek His guidance and wisdom.
InChrist
Free4ever
I don't necessarily think the altering the genetics of plants or potential to destroy the entire world food system is generic or something which has commonly occurred.
And where is that mentioned in the bible?
Well sooner or later somebodies bound to be right.
InChrist
Free4ever
Revelation 6:8 and 18:8, which I believe apply to the the last days, both mention famine. I think the genetic altering of food crops is simply setting the stage for such famines to occur.
Famines happen all the time. Like I said generic stuff. Yawn
InChrist
Free4ever
True. famines happen all the time. But do they or have they ever happened on a global scale? Have the genetics of food crops ever been altered before as they are now to the extent that once this altered plant DNA is out in the environment all major food producing crops may be threatened?
InChrist
Free4ever
That was interesting, thank you.
Those don't suggest "on a global scale". All the warning signs are generic and common.
Even if it did, it still just generic common problems.
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If it weren't, there'd be no life (living systems are complex dynamical systems far from thermodynamic equilibrium or- in common parlance- chaotic).
So the mass extinctions including those in which almost all life on the planet died were less "chaotic", or are these not harbingers of the endtime because humans didn't yet exist? Out of curiosity, does the fact that for over 100,000 years life for all of humanity was so vastly more precarious than now that our survival as a species wasn't really guaranteed to the extent it now is factor into your interpretation of current events (i.e., we now have the ability to adapt environments to suit our needs as never before and there is no predator that presents even the slightest threat; all the threats are either part of natural phenomena, caused by us, or a combination of both)? How about the fact that rampant disease, war, famine, drought, etc., are for the first time items worthy of note, rather than the status quo?
Bunyip
pro scapegoat
The problem is that people have been making this same claim for thousands of years, it is a prediction with a 100% perfect failure rate.
How frequent earthquakes are has only been measurable for a few decades - so we simply do not know if it is increasing or not
Ebola is unlikely to ever kill anywhere near as high a proportion of the population as did the plague, the Spanish flu, typhoid, diptheria, malaria and so on.
How frequent earthquakes are has only been measurable for a few decades - so we simply do not know if it is increasing or not
Ebola is unlikely to ever kill anywhere near as high a proportion of the population as did the plague, the Spanish flu, typhoid, diptheria, malaria and so on.
Ebola II: What should we really be concerned about?
There's also the much less informative first part: Outbreak! Were all going to die of Ebola (or the movie Outbreak)
Robert.Evans
You will be assimilated; it is His Will.
Personally I think the presence of the lord is felt many times, over for many things... and there are many different ends of ages. What about WW11? I think if you had lived through that or WW1 you would think it the end of the age. The end will come to most of us when we die. As for the end of the planet, I think there is a few billion years to go yet.
Each day is an end to someone.
Aupmanyav
Be your own guru
So, when and how soon you think God is going to hold court?
InChrist
Free4ever
I'm not saying that the precarious situations of famines, disease, wars, etc of the past were not major life-threatening events, Just saying the situation at present is different and indicative to me of the end of the age because it aligns with biblical information concerning things which would take place before the end of history as we know it and the return of Christ. Along with that, the threat from nuclear devastation is now possible on a global scale, which was not a factor at any other time in history. And, yes, I think that this threat of the extinction of humans is significant because I believe the earth was created especially by God with a purpose and for humans made in His image. So I believe when it gets to the point (which only God knows) where humans have so rejected God, His purposes and are capable or about to destroy His creation and each other He will step in and end it.