RE: So has Christ returned
May 20, 2022 at 10:40 am
(This post was last modified: May 20, 2022 at 11:01 am by Mister Agenda.
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(May 20, 2022 at 1:36 am)medusa53 Wrote: No, Jesus has not returned yet; but soon. Just look at how this world has changed in the last 10 years. I have talked with many Agnostics and Atheists and listened to their side of the story with an open mind. How can you NOT believe??
Welcome medusa53, I hope you'll be starting an introduction thread soon.
How can I NOT believe? I'm glad you asked. I was raised Pentecostal and totally bought into it. As a young man over 40 years ago I too was certain Jesus would be back any minute. After all,there were wars and rumors of wars; drought and famine, earthquakes and plagues; just like the Bible said there would be before Jesus returned. But that's all been true throughout human history, predicting that is like predicting winter will come. It would be far more remarkable if any of those things stopped happening. My dad said it would be within the next five years or so for sure my whole life.
Reading the Bible cover-to-cover twice didn't make me an atheist, but it did make me stop being a fundamentalist, literalist Pentecostal. The Bible does not describe a deity worthy of respect, and the Hebrews clearly did not have access to the insights of an omniscient being; and that's without getting into contradictions and events that clearly never really happened.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
