(January 5, 2019 at 11:45 am)Jehanne Wrote:(January 3, 2019 at 5:12 pm)DoubtingHerFaith Wrote: Hi, I'm new here, I'm 24 female and I was raised christian and then stopped believing and became atheist and that was too depressing for me at the time so then I was agnostic and researched a little into other religions and then got majorly into New Age, and then came back around to following christianity 3 months ago because New Age was mostly lies and I thought it was demonic and I missed how I felt when I was little and everything was easy and I could just trust in Jesus, except I had forgotten why I stopped believing in the first place and it's because I have mental disorders(bipolar II, borderline pd, depression, introversion) that made it impossible for me to be the good and perfect Christian I wanted to be. and now I'm back in the same position and it seems like God created me with no chance of being able to be good enough just to damn me. and I really really don't want to believe in Christianity. help please
Oh I will be honest though, I'm scared of the prophecies in Revelations about the Mark of the Beast because I can totally see how it could be an RFID chip and I know the possibility of a New World Order, One World Government is definitely the direction we're headed in and merging with technology and it freaks me out. I don't see it as being a good thing for humanity sorry to say and that might upset some people here but I don't trust giving that much power to the most power hungry of us humans. they unfortunately usually don't have benevolent intentions(think Psychopaths....high level psychopaths.....I don't trust the low level ones and definitely not the high level ones lol)
I grew-up on that stuff! Hey, it was all supposed to happen in the '80s, you know, with the EU being the 10-headed beast, or whatever -- just neglect the fact that the EU now has something like 12 members. But, in fact, there was a big hoopla in the 70s, when evangelicals thought that Jesus would return; didn't happen, of course. And, because, the guy is dead!
But, hey, welcome! As for Revelation, no modern scholar takes that seriously. Just go out to Google Play or iTunes, and install the free Audible app. Your first audio book is free, and I would suggest, "New Testament by Professor Bart Ehrman". It's only 12 hours long (24 lectures), and that will get you up to speed on the last century of modern Biblical scholarship.
Lots of scholars take it seriously.
What evangelicals thought Jesus would return in the 70s? Why did they think it? There is no date given that suggests it would happen then. The Bible says we won't know the day.
