Do you believe Jesus Christ will return to us soon? Why and why not? [Spirituality & Religion]

@Deadcutie

But it turns out that people have been thinking it will happen in their lifetime for [i]centuries[/i].

People always tend to think that they live in historically monuments times. People always think that their people and their time are special.

Turns out that despite the many, many, [i]many[/i] predictions by intelligent, faithful people....jesus still ain't come back.

So what makes you think he's coming back in the next few decades?

@Pikachu as I said, the difrence is at no point in time has man been capable of destroying all life on earth until around the late 50s-60s
The scripture specifies a generation capable of destroying all life. And in fact all life would be destroyed, but because of the elects sake, Christ will intervene and put an end to it...
No historical empire or groups of people have been capable until now..

@Deadcutie

We're not capable of destroying all life on now either. We're just capable of destroying human life. Actually maybe not even that. Just civilization as we know it

Another speculative indication is the 6000 years theory that god has given Satan and man to try every form of rule for themselves..

Of course I can’t be exact, however approximately 2000 years occurred before the events of the flood, another 2000 between the flood and the events of Christ, and approximately 2018 years from Christ till now.. it doesn’t take exact mathematical precision to see that there are few years left within this hypothetical 6000 years

@Deadcutie

Well i guess we'll see. But given how many people have been so SURE that the world is coming to an end within their lifetime, i won't hold my breath

@Pikachu don’t kid yourself, we are capable of destroying this earth as a livable habitat 20X over I’m not going to split hairs of whether all life includes sentient life or includes microscopic fungi....

@Deadcutie

I don't know man, there's plenty of life in Chernobyl. Extinction events tend to predominantly affect organisms above the size of a cat.
People tend to think of life on earth as human life on earth. We're anthropocentric like that

@Pikachu I’m not saying I know exact times here , nor am I keeping a calendar and survival supplies waiting for the end, however it is filed in the back of my mind and it is my speculation and opinion

@Pikachu the thing I can tell you is it won’t be in the next 3-5 years

@Pikachu god centers the Bible on the perspective of human life. So it could be argued that all life is just referred to all human life. After all god extinguished all life during the flood, but obviously some fish and sea life undoubtedly survived. So did microscopic organisms.. so for arguments sake, let’s just assume that when it’s written that all life could be destroyed, the main focus is on human life

@Deadcutie

So why do you think that so many people have been equally confident (if not more so) that the end times is coming in their lifetime?
They had access to the same passages as you.

@Pikachu but they obviously didn’t read the qualifying conditions that needed to happen first. It’s like they skip ahead to read the outcome, but skip the details that must come to pass.. only when mankind perfected the nuclear bomb and perfected the means to introduce and weaponize deadly viruses have mankind entered into this prophesied qualifier

@Deadcutie

[quote] but they obviously didn’t read the qualifying conditions that needed to happen first[/quote]

[i]Really[/i] ?

Don't you find that statement just a bit arrogant?
All those other people who have been predicting the end times for centuries weren't as clever as you? None of them carefully studied the text and determined that the conditions were right?
Remember, this includes people who give up all their worldly possessions, kill their children, kill themselves. And you're going to sit there and say "well obviously they weren't being as diligent in their study of scripture as me".


Hmmm.

I'm not denying that i think we could wipe out human civilization as we know it.
I just stumble at your confidence that hundreds and thousands of people who thought the end times were at hand just weren't as clever or studied as you...

@Pikachu the Bible is clear, so no they didn’t, like most people they read what they wanted to hear.

It is very clearly stated Christ will intervene at a time that if he didn’t, all life would be extinguished. Period...

What these others viewed is irrelevant.

@Deadcutie

Do you think those people were any less sure? They gave up [i]everything[/i] including their lives and the lives of their children and you feel comfortable dismissing them as just not really paying attention to scripture?
Do you think that they felt any less superior to those many wrong that came before than you feel to them?

I just wonder at your arrogance. Especially since all you have to say in defense of it is "i'm sure i've read the signs correctly and they didn't"

Amazing how people look down on people who lived before them as if they were less intelligent, diligent and devout.

Who gave up thier lives, what are you even talking about.? People who murdered thier children and committed suicide because they thought the end was coming? Yeah, they were dumbasses

I’m just passing on what Christ said, it’s written in the Bible, take it for what it’s worth

@Deadcutie

[quote]Yeah, they were dumbasses [/quote]

An uncharitable judgement. What they were was frightened and convinced that the end was coming and they wanted to spare their children the pain of the end times.

Oh i get that you think you're right. That you've got it figured out.
I just think it's hilarious that you're so sure of your own interpretation and so sure that the thousands who came before you weren't as clever as you 😉

@Pikachu yeah they were stupid dumbasses. I probably saw some of the cute ones in the autopsy database...

Yep at least within my lifetime for sure, or they are right and the Bible is bullshit anyways

@Deadcutie

Guess we'll just have to wait and see🙂

@Pikachu that we will