(March 31, 2014 at 10:33 pm)Revelation777 Wrote: "To the Lord a thousand years is as a day"So he's only two days late? Yeah, that doesn't sound as bad. But I have bad news for you. If god is eternal, then not only are a thousand years as a day, so are a million. And a billion. Which means that "soon" could mean that Jesus will return just a few moments before the last flicker of energy burns out of the universe... in about five trillion years. Which means that this:
Quote:He will keep His promise....is fairly meaningless. Our mental wiring is such that it's natural to be convinced that the greatest events in human history will coincidentally occur during our watch; it's safe to assume that most Christians have expected the end to come during their lifetimes, and continue to expect this today.
My prediction? Jesus won't be returning during your lifetime.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
