Eschatology

[steve_bank]

Christians constantly spin current events into an interpretation of scripture and end times prediction. It is an established branch of 'study'.

During the Cold War it was the Eagle vs Bear and Dragon or something like that.

Us vs Russia and China. A recursing one is 'earthquakes, floods, plagues, and rumors of war'. Ignoring the fact that they always exist.

Christian eschatology - Wikipedia

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Christian eschatology, a major branch of study within Christian theology, deals with "last things". Such eschatology – the word derives from two Greek roots meaning "last" (ἔσχατος) and "study" (-λογία) – involves the study of "end things", whether of the end of an individual life, of the end of the age, of the end of the world, or of the nature of the Kingdom of God. Broadly speaking, Christian eschatology focuses on the ultimate destiny of individual souls and of the entire created order, based primarily upon biblical texts within the Old and New Testaments.

Christian eschatology looks to study and discuss matters such as death and the afterlife, Heaven and Hell, the Second Coming of Jesus, the resurrection of the dead, the rapture, the tribulation, millennialism, the end of the world, the Last Judgment, and the New Heaven and New Earth in the world to come.

Eschatological passages appear in many places in the Bible, in both the Old and New Testaments. Many extra-biblical examples of eschatological prophecies also exist, as well as extra-biblical ecclesiastical traditions relating to the subject.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

A recursing one is 'earthquakes, floods, plagues, and rumors of war'. Ignoring the fact that they always exist.

The passage in question is from Matthew 24 which tells us:

5 For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Messiah!’[a] and they will lead many astray. 6 And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars; see that you are not alarmed; for this must take place, but the end is not yet. 7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places: 8 all this is but the beginning of the birth pangs.

Most people ignore the part in bold. Jesus isn't saying that earthquakes and wars are signs that the end is near but is saying the very opposite; earthquakes and wars as you say are common events that don't necessarily presage the apocalypse, and nobody need be alarmed when they take place.

People are so very confused by the Bible!

 

[steve_bank]

In popular Christian escatology it has been taken as s sign of end times. There are TV shows on ''why we are in the end times'.

Somebody will go through the news and frame it in biblical prophesy and end times. And of course for a donation you cn hear all about it in a book and CD.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

In popular Christian escatology it has been taken as s sign of end times.

Yes, and they're misreading the Bible. No wonder Jesus isn't showing up.

There are TV shows on ''why we are in the end times'.

And those TV shows are copyrighted--just in case Jesus tarries, and the film is used without permission. There might still be enough time for a lawsuit. If not, those Christian filmmakers could be raptured right out of the courtroom!

Somebody will go through the news and frame it in biblical prophesy and end times.

The New York Times has augmented the Book of Revelation the two working together to let us all know "what must soon take place."

And of course for a donation you cn hear all about it in a book and CD.

Jesus taught his followers to lay up treasure in heaven, but until they get there, some cash proceeds from book and CD sales won't hurt a bit.

 

[Jarhyn]

In popular Christian escatology it has been taken as s sign of end times. There are TV shows on ''why we are in the end times'.

Somebody will go through the news and frame it in biblical prophesy and end times. And of course for a donation you cn hear all about it in a book and CD.

To be fair, anyone who was raised under a church that reads or encourages readings of Revelations is going to secretly have a machine trained up in their brain that's low-key going to work towards checking off the boxes.

Trump made a good shot at the 'ol bingo card, and we didn't even need to buy the book or the CD to see it, complete with calling in 3 of the horsemen: Death, Plague and War.

We were a solid Famine away from a blackout game.

 

[Bronzeage]

So far, everyone who determined a date for the "End Times" has been shown to be wrong.

 

[steve_bank]

Eventually somebody will be right.

 

[Politesse]

Escatology sounds like the study of digital waste.

 

[Politesse]

So far, everyone who determined a date for the "End Times" has been shown to be wrong.

Not true, the world has on many occasions ended at the expected time... for those persons who were making the prediction.

Everyone loses the world eventually. Some folks make arrangements.

 

[atrib]

Escatology sounds like the study of digital waste.

Or the study of exotic cats.

 

[steve_bank]

Jesus was the first end timer doomsayer.

 

[bilby]

Jesus was the first end timer doomsayer.

Not by a long chalk.

Where do you get these bizarre beliefs about the importance of Jesus? His story isn't special in any particular way. Everything he is reputed to have said or done had already been said or allegedly done by someone else; Usually a lot of someones else.

Tales of the imminent doom of civilisation, humanity, the entire planet Earth, or even the whole of the universe, are as old as storytelling, which is one of the defining traits separating humans from their non-human ancestors. They pre-date Jesus by at least many tens of thousands, and probably more like a few hundred thousand years.

 

[T.G.G. Moogly]

Jesus was the first end timer doomsayer.

I doubt that.

Not true, the world has on many occasions ended at the expected time... for those persons who were making the prediction.

Everyone loses the world eventually. Some folks make arrangements.

All eschatology is local.