RE: How long will Christians wait for Jesus?
February 17, 2017 at 5:20 pm
(This post was last modified: February 17, 2017 at 5:30 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Lets be fair to "jesus"...it's his followers that seem to be able to ruin anything.
For example, it was the failure of the prophecies contained in Matthew and other NT books, the nagging reality of the world not having come to an end, that touched off the passive aggressive early stages of an eschatological (and sometimes actual) war between preterism and futurism..which persists today between mainstream christians and "left behind" nutters, though it;s decidedly the left behind nutters clinging to fundamental beliefs as best they can, while their preterist brethren have found a way to square the failure of prophecy in the real world with the promise of glory in the hereafter.
Notable casualties of that internecine struggle include pauls heavenly christ and the idealist eschatology it represented, and the eventual victors were the historicists who pick and choose which prophecies have been fulfilled and which haven't yet been fulfilled. It's these folks, knowing nothing about how they came to believe what they believe, who imagine...generation after generation...that theirs is the last. That prophecy is finally, and perpetually, about to be fulfilled.
All of them, though, think that their belief is "in the bible", which, ofc, it isn't. All of the different takes came from power struggles among groups of decidedly less-than-divine individuals.
For example, it was the failure of the prophecies contained in Matthew and other NT books, the nagging reality of the world not having come to an end, that touched off the passive aggressive early stages of an eschatological (and sometimes actual) war between preterism and futurism..which persists today between mainstream christians and "left behind" nutters, though it;s decidedly the left behind nutters clinging to fundamental beliefs as best they can, while their preterist brethren have found a way to square the failure of prophecy in the real world with the promise of glory in the hereafter.
Notable casualties of that internecine struggle include pauls heavenly christ and the idealist eschatology it represented, and the eventual victors were the historicists who pick and choose which prophecies have been fulfilled and which haven't yet been fulfilled. It's these folks, knowing nothing about how they came to believe what they believe, who imagine...generation after generation...that theirs is the last. That prophecy is finally, and perpetually, about to be fulfilled.
All of them, though, think that their belief is "in the bible", which, ofc, it isn't. All of the different takes came from power struggles among groups of decidedly less-than-divine individuals.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
