RE: Poll for Christians: Are the End Times imminent?
December 17, 2013 at 4:51 pm
(This post was last modified: December 17, 2013 at 5:07 pm by Doubting Thomas.)
(December 17, 2013 at 3:35 pm)Chad32 Wrote: I've heard that it means this age, because people read a lot of astrological symbolism in the bible. For disproving reasons, it is better to pick something less ambiguous, like the Tyr prophesy, but people will likely find some way to wiggle out of that too.
Our very own Godschild tried that, by comparing Tyre with Hiroshima. He said that Hiroshima was destroyed and a new city was rebuilt on top of the old one. Same with Tyre, the city we know as Tyre was rebuilt on top of the old one. Never mind that the "prophecy" stated that once Tyre was destroyed it would never be rebuilt. Never mind that the old city of Tyre was never actually destroyed. I was actually kind of disappointed with this lame explanation.
*ETA* Also in a similar thread Drich was arguing pretty much the same thing. The old city of Tyre was destroyed but another was built next to it.
Christian apologetics is the art of rolling a dog turd in sugar and selling it as a donut.
