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"abby now" <itsnomore@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Dale Houstman" <dmh7@skypoint.com> wrote in message
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>> abby now wrote:
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>>> Isaiah 65:17 (NKJV) "For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth;
>>> And the former shall not be remembered or come to mind.
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>> Only Baal knows what that means. It certainly doesn't mean that "old
>> earth" should necessarily be destroyed, only forgotten.
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>> In truth the Bible has little to say about the planet as an entity
>> (rather than as a spiritual idea) because it was mostly written by
>> desert-dwelling hop heads with very little scientific understanding.
>> My Bible is quite intact. It says nothing about the actual destruction of
>> the planet.
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> But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the
> heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with
> fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned
> up. Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of
> persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, looking for and
> hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will
> be dissolved, being on fire, and the elements will melt with fervent heat?
> Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new
> earth in which righteousness dwells.
> Pe 3:10-13 (NKJV
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>> And - anyway - is that your full reasoning behind the assumption that
>> earth will "soon" pass away? Even given that the quoted passages were
>> relevant, where's the "soon"?
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> I believe based on the prophecies in the Bible that the Lord will return
> soon - as in the next 30 years.

That's what was believed in the 70's by fundamenalists. And here we are,
still here.
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