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RE: Poll for Christians: Are the End Times imminent?
December 19, 2013 at 10:32 am
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I don't think the prophesy about Israel becoming a nation again sets any sort of timeline. Eventually, if a group of people want it enough, they can make a new nation and call it whatever they want. If the bible gave an exact year, and it happened in that year, I'd consider it a fulfilled prophesy. Not giving it a timeline means it could take place in the year 5000, and still be considered a fulfilled prophesy.
That's on the same level as "There will be wars, and rumors of wars". Well of course there will be. How about make some specifics? Who will go to war? When will the go to war? How do we avoid the war? Should we partake directly in the war?
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RE: Poll for Christians: Are the End Times imminent?
December 19, 2013 at 12:04 pm
(December 19, 2013 at 10:32 am)Chad32 Wrote: That's on the same level as "There will be wars, and rumors of wars". Well of course there will be.
Precisely. It is the same as stating, It is going to rain soon and claiming to be a prophet when it rains sometime in the future.
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RE: Poll for Christians: Are the End Times imminent?
December 19, 2013 at 12:53 pm
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(December 16, 2013 at 8:39 pm)Polaris Wrote: I'd say the same if I was an atheist. I'd be surprised if humanity survived the next 50 years based on it's decline towards further destructive tendencies.
We portuguese have an allegory to that position, "Velho do Restelo" or "the old man in Restelo". Do tell, what has gotten worse in the last 50 years? We have increased life expectancy, we are more tolerant, we have decreased hunger, desease and are able to gather more knowledge to make charity more valuable and worthy.
Do tell us where are we going wrong.
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RE: Poll for Christians: Are the End Times imminent?
December 19, 2013 at 12:59 pm
(December 18, 2013 at 12:43 am)Godschild Wrote: this world is in deterioration and it is not as pleasant place as it should be.
Once religion has ceased to be an important part of society, the world will be a lot more pleasant place to live.
Christian apologetics is the art of rolling a dog turd in sugar and selling it as a donut.
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RE: Poll for Christians: Are the End Times imminent?
December 19, 2013 at 5:25 pm
(December 19, 2013 at 12:59 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote: (December 18, 2013 at 12:43 am)Godschild Wrote: this world is in deterioration and it is not as pleasant place as it should be.
Once religion has ceased to be an important part of society, the world will be a lot more pleasant place to live.
Really the largest percentage of terrible crime, actually all crime are committed by non Christians.
GC
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
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RE: Poll for Christians: Are the End Times imminent?
December 19, 2013 at 5:35 pm
(December 17, 2013 at 6:54 pm)Chas Wrote: You actually believe that?
If only I had a dollar for every time that thought had run through my head as I was reading through this forum.
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RE: Poll for Christians: Are the End Times imminent?
December 19, 2013 at 5:43 pm
(December 19, 2013 at 5:25 pm)Godschild Wrote: Really the largest percentage of terrible crime, actually all crime are committed by non Christians.
GC
Really? All crime? Care to back up that statement with evidence, or should we throw it on the mountainous trash heap of other unsupported nonsense you routinely assert?
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RE: Poll for Christians: Are the End Times imminent?
December 19, 2013 at 5:51 pm
(December 19, 2013 at 5:25 pm)Godschild Wrote: (December 19, 2013 at 12:59 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote: Once religion has ceased to be an important part of society, the world will be a lot more pleasant place to live.
Really the largest percentage of terrible crime, actually all crime are committed by non Christians.
GC
I bet the prison stats refute your assertion.
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RE: Poll for Christians: Are the End Times imminent?
December 19, 2013 at 5:52 pm
(December 19, 2013 at 5:43 pm)Crossless1 Wrote: (December 19, 2013 at 5:25 pm)Godschild Wrote: Really the largest percentage of terrible crime, actually all crime are committed by non Christians.
GC
Really? All crime? Care to back up that statement with evidence, or should we throw it on the mountainous trash heap of other unsupported nonsense you routinely assert?
That's not what I've been hearing. Surely all those christians an American jails didn't just convert after they went to jail.
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RE: Poll for Christians: Are the End Times imminent?
December 19, 2013 at 5:52 pm
(December 16, 2013 at 4:54 pm)xpastor Wrote: Christians, please give the reasons for your belief.
Atheists should not fill out the poll but are welcome to post comments.
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