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Originally posted by PersonalChoice
Or will it take a thousand more years, will it take fifteen thousand more years of no sign of Jesus or a "God" before we finally admit to ourselves that maybe this was just a book created by man to control the masses.
Originally posted by PersonalChoice
I was just reading Binwrights thread on the theory that Constantine basically had the bible constructed in the third century so he could control the people. Bare with me, this is the first time posting in this forum.
It got me thinking, how long is finally too long, will there be people in the year 8010 (that's correct the eightieth century, no typo) still trying to justify the bible? Will they still be swearing that we are in the end times, and that Jesus will return soon?
I don't know, it's been two thousand years already, that is a very long time (in human years at least).
Will there ever be some point in time where everyone will look at the bible(and all the other Korans, Torahs, ect) in some museum and tell a young person "At one time thousands of years ago humans all over the planet truly believed and lived by the words in these books".
Would we be lumped together with the Mayans, Egyptians, and other thousand year old civilizations practiced theories on "God"?
Or will it take a thousand more years, will it take fifteen thousand more years of no sign of Jesus or a "God" before we finally admit to ourselves that maybe this was just a book created by man to control the masses.
Originally posted by OmegaLogos
Explanation: Usually there is a Thirty-day notice [legal: thefreedictionary.com] before eviction can occur!
And as the bible tell us that 1000yrs is as 1day for God at Psalm 90:4 [blueletterbible.org], we can be sure that we have at LEAST 28,000 more yrs [+/- 10yrs] to go IF we take Jesus's birth to be the serving of notice by the landlord!
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Originally posted by OmegaLogos
And as the bible tell us that 1000yrs is as 1day for God at [url=http://www.blueletterbible.org/Bible.cfm?b=Psa&c=90&v=4&t=KJV#top]Psalm 90:4 [blueletterbible.org][/url
Originally posted by Ophiuchus 13
Originally posted by PersonalChoice
Will they still be swearing that we are in the end times, and that Jesus will return soon?
I don't know, it's been two thousand years already, that is a very long time (in human years at least).
Would we be lumped together with the Mayans, Egyptians, and other thousand year old civilizations practiced theories on "God"?
Or will it take a thousand more years, will it take fifteen thousand more years of no sign of Jesus or a "God" before we finally admit to ourselves that maybe this was just a book created by man to control the masses.
--I DOUBT THAT TIME EXIST UM JUST SAYEN, there is a reason the Earth is at its most destructive point again. There are weapons present that were not present in recent past that can destroy everyone on Earth.
--Mabey one should find the source of the first documentation of the creator and see it spans back before Constintine, and you forgot the DEAD SEA SCROLLS just to add.
3117 yowm yome from an unused root meaning to be hot; a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb):--age, + always, + chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), + elder, X end, + evening, + (for) ever(-lasting, -more), X full, life, as (so) long as (... live), (even) now, + old, + outlived, + perpetually, presently, + remaineth, X required, season, X since, space, then, (process of) time, + as at other times, + in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), X whole (+ age), (full) year(-ly), + younger.
Or will it take a thousand more years, will it take fifteen thousand more years of no sign of Jesus or a "God" before we finally admit to ourselves that maybe this was just a book created by man to control the masses.
Originally posted by ntech
If you take the rebirth of Israel as a end time event then the generation is 62 years old this May. Leaving 18 years or less for the Apocalypse to finish.
Originally posted by nomorecruelty
The ones who are asking "Where is Jesus" are actually fulfilling yet another Bible prophecy:
If people would r e a d the Bible, they would have most of the answers to their questions:
As the Days of Noah
2 Peter 3: 3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
Children, it is the last hour; and just as you heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have appeared; from this we know that it is the last hour. —1 John 2:18
[edit on 23-3-2010 by nomorecruelty]
Originally posted by Shane
Originally posted by ntech
If you take the rebirth of Israel as a end time event then the generation is 62 years old this May. Leaving 18 years or less for the Apocalypse to finish.
While I agree with you in this, the Parable of the Fig Tree, may not have started with the Re-Creation of the State of Israel.
That "Generational Countdown", may have begun in 67, when Israel reclaimed the Holy City of Jerusalem.
We truly do not know, eitherway, but we can be sure, it has started.
Ciao
Shane
Originally posted by Titen-Sxull
I think the Bible will eventually go the same way as the other myths we have set aside as just that.
We will think of the God of the Bible in the same way we think of Zeus, Odin, Osiris, Krishna, etc and the world will likely be a better place for it.
Rather than leaping up to defend the myths as absolute truth people will instead focus on the lessons taught by those myths.
Truthfully I don't know how anyone manages to claim the Bible is absolute truth in this day and age, with knowledge just a click a way.
You'd think logic would get the best of them but they seem emboldened by how truly false their own claims are as though the more they are proven false the stronger their faith grows.
"...It is, for example, crucial to note than an exclusively literal interpretation of the Bible is a recent development. Until the 19th century, very few people imagined that the first chapter of Genesis was a factual account of the origins of life. For centuries, Jews and Christians relished highly allegorical and inventive exegesis, insisting that a wholly literal reading of the bible was neither possible nor desireable."
-Karen Armstrong: "The Bible; A Biography" (book)