If you don't believe in the God of the Bible, what would it take for you to believe? [Spirituality & Religion]

@whowasthatmaskedman I love your low-key absurdist humor.

@whowasthatmaskedman Sadly, that's not going to happen... at least not for a few years.

@ms20182878 My smile at your phrase "not for a few years" withers as I wonder if you didn't write that with ironic hyperbole... ?

@MissPriscillaPrim 🙂

@ms20182878 Seriously, I'm curious. Are you expecting an imminent return of the Messiah? No blame, no argument, promise.

@MissPriscillaPrim Absolutely He will return. I am fully confident in that. And the time is not far away now.

@ms20182878 I didn't promise I wouldn't sigh. (can't help it)

@MissPriscillaPrim 😁

@ms20182878 But he all seeing all knowing, omnipotent, omnipresent. Are we waiting till he gets his seams straight or something?

@MissPriscillaPrim (lifts my hat respectfully. ) Thank you Sometimes it is born of sheer frustration. Dealing with absurdity a lot will do that.

@whowasthatmaskedman If you're asking about the timing of the return of Jesus, it will be at His timing, most likely on Rosh Hashana (Feast of Trumpets), the first day of the Jewish month of Tishrei, but we don't know the year. The text says that the generation that see the return of His people to their land will see the return of Jesus. It is commonly believed that the people returned to the land in 1948, when the nation of Israel was established, and a generation is believed to be 100 years, so 2048 would appear to be the outside year.

@ms20182878 Sorry. My mothers copy of Nostradamus says different.
Mark 13:32
But as for that day or hour, no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.

Acts 1:7
Jesus replied, "It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by His own authority.
There are more. But if you are going to quote good books at me I will quote one back.
"Curiouser and Curiouser"

@whowasthatmaskedman The phrase "for that day or hour, no one knows" was commonly used in reference to the first day of each month, when the watchmen on the corner of the temple were watching for that first sliver of a new moon to denote the first day of the month. So, in the culture, that phrase is connected with the first day of the month.

When you pick a single verse, it is easy to miss the context. In one of Paul's letter he continues on and says something like "But you are not ignorant, you know the signs". So it is always good to read the context around the verse in question.

@ms20182878 I knew I should have added that bit about the devil siting scripture for his own purposes. Look. There are just too many reasons why predictions of the future based on the bible are (and I struggle not to be insulting here) impossible. From the source scrolls. (most of which never made it into the original version. Did you know there are in fact over 70 commandments?) To the repeated editing in translations and updatings. (which wrote a Goddess out completely.) Its a fair old story. But so is Grimms fairytales and Aesops Fables. And I wont be predicting the end of days on them either. If your God was around, I think he would be holding his nose and getting ready to flush earth down the celestial crapper. And if thats the case. not much I can do will change it. But if this is his creation I see no reason to hope for better from heaven and am happy I wont be seeing it one way or another.
I think we are done here.😉

@whowasthatmaskedman It's a truly nasty Christian heresy that's got a stranglehold on American society now, led by our Federal Christo-Taliban. Too many seem to abuse the bible for just two purposes: learning whom to hate, and finding links between obscure bible verses and the news headlines. Charity, humility? Zilch.
But NOT ALL Christians are in that camp, not even in the US. Just the loudest fragment.