Interesting thoughts!

Perhaps I can add this one:

Since it is Biblical based (in which I feel was created and used to divide and mislead the religious masses) - is it possible that the Anti-Christ will only be evil according to Christianity? Supposing the opposite is true?

[bAshleyD and others are tired of hearing this from me - so I apologize, but if Jesus came back down (which he isn't, IMO) I think that he would be labeled the AC! Why?

Because his message would be so different than expected, and would be turned away. But because the AC doesn't fit the suspected profile, he/it/they will be spurned by the religious community.

But not necessarily by the rest of the world who are looking for divine intervention in a different way.

Just like Paul may have been the ultimate deceiver, so the AC could actually be the opposite of what we have been taught!! What a concept!

In Brothers Karamazov Dostoevsky wrote a chapter The Grand Inquisitor and in that chapter he explained this whole problem.
He clearly named who the Antichrist was/is.
It is the Church.

This the chicken or the egg scenario.
The Christan's create the chicken and wait for the egg to hatch!
Ha I got you!!

I'm not going to believe this is all ATS members have on this topic.
I will do some homework and see if there is more.

Well, if you mean that all the faiths merge and agree on a single doctrine, that is never going to happen. The reason is that different religions teach different things and many of these are contradictory of the others.

Take the creation story, there is Genesis and that is basically accepted by Jews and Christians and to a lesser extent Muslims. However, Jews and Muslims believe radically different things about the later chapters of Genesis. Each group claiming that they are the true heirs of Abraham. The Jews through Jacob and the Muslims through Esau. This is a fundamental difference in belief and cannot be easily reconciled.

That is one simple example, there are thousands of religions and probably millions of fundamental differences. As you probably know, people don't give up their beliefs easily, this is why there are so many pagan symbols in Christianity. Even when people convert to a new Faith, they almost always bring with them old beliefs that may not be compatible.

So, short of a worldwide religious event that suddenly and dramatically shifts the religious beliefs of a majority of people, I don't think that a unification of Faith is possible. Remember that the Roman Empire tried that when they created the Catholic Church. Nice try fella's but no cigar.

So, what kinds of events could cause a worldwide shift in religious thinking?

Well, the invention of a time machine could do it, because then everyone could see for themselves what actually happened. That could be the end game for most religions.

Aliens landing on the White House lawn and coming out and saying that all those miracles through the ages, were performed by them. That could do it. This is the scenario in "Childhood's End" by Arthur C. Clarke.

An event like the rapture, could do it.

Other's have mentioned the Anti-Christ who is supposed to do it by force.

The Christ was supposed to do it by spiritual means.

Holy War could do it, especially if one side had superior weapons.

A worldwide cataclysm of biblical proportions, like a second flood, a giant meteorite, or nuclear war.

These are a few, you can decide which ones are likely to happen.

Jesus Christ will come again to rule the earth. All false religions will be banished - simple really. If you read the Bible, and/or Nostradamus, and/or heaps of other stuff, it spells it out clearly.

'Religion' is something that has been ruined by mankind, as we ruin everything - this world, other people, animals, the environment etc etc etc. Sometimes I am ashamed to belong to the human race - wait a minute, maybe I am "the one" - lol just kidding. Or maybe I am the great Reptilian? hahaha

Jesus will come again.

Peace and love

Whenever I want to discuss something, you guys have all gone - I am in NZ so I am on a totally different time zone - NOT FAIR, boo hoo

The only ideology that has a chance to unite all religions into one is the religion of "Survivalism", as the things look like now.
Everybody seems to believe that the battle for survival is going on, even though little children know that no one in this Universe will survive.
The power of self delusion is such that it can overpower most human minds and lead them into self destruction in the name of survival.
What an absurd species human being are!

Why do all of you anticipate some great convergence? It's so annoying. Way, way, way too much. It's so redundant and overdone. I'm not even going to critically analyze such a notion. It's just far too taxing.

[edit on 27-12-2008 by cognoscente]

12.21.12... i just want to discuss something with you if its okay, coz you seem intelligent, clued up, and i did like your prediction as to what will happen, even if i dont directly believe it.

Anyway, this isnt a stab, just something im thinking, so please feel free to question your beliefs...

If the illuminati did indeed write the bible to set all this up, why would they include so many parables, moral stories, loving tales etc, to make Christians try and be good people.
If they then want to take over the world 2000 years, or 3,600 years later, and lead all the "tricked" Christians to slaughter... aren't they leaving all the atheists who question and rebel, and indeed killing all the Christians who have been fooled and easily led?

They are killing the VERY group of people that it would be very easy for a NWO to cope with and keep at bay. If a nwo did start, it would be the atheist outside the box thinkers that would be the trouble. If you could describe the very people that the NWO would want to keep, it would be people like christians (if its all fake) coz they are obviously willing to go along with what told, right? it would serve no purpose to get rid of the wrong types of people.


Oh and finally, you would i assume, accept that throughout history, the NWO have been at the centre of many if not all large organiszations? What about the romans? if they werent illuminati then they came VERY close to globalisation and take over? explain that... if your argument is that they too are the illuminati? then why did they capture and kill many of the people involved in writing the Bible.... after all, the Bible is "their" work that they want people out there to know and read, yet they are killing people who are writing it to stop them?... again, doesnt add up.