Jimbace

"Dale Houstman" <dmh7@skypoint.com> wrote in message
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> Jimbace wrote:
>> "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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>>>>>"Dale Houstman" <dmh7@skypoint.com> wrote in message
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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.
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>> That's what was believed in the 70's by fundamenalists. And here we are,
>> still here.
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> Since the 70s!?


Yes, I know, I was speaking of modern times that abby would have been alive
in (or nearly).

This has been predicted by religious looncakes forever
> now; the Middle Ages were stuffed with a series of such folderol and
> fiddle faddle. In times of great cultural uproar, the sasme old tired
> donkey is trotted out and beaten all over again. Unless one is insane, a
> series of totally incorrect forecasts over the course of two thousand
> years might make you doubt the very process of prophecy. Yet - after two
> thousand years (not counting the apocalyptic visions which predate
> Christianity) - the Bible munchers are still buying the same old tripe
> from the same old fishmonger. So why - given such a record of repeated
> self-delusion - is it so outrageous to think that religion might indeed
> make people feeble-minded? Even an animal will usually stop eating the
> same old eggs if they're always rotten. You'd think a supposedly thinking
> human being could figure out that the Bible is a horrible guide to the
> future by now, if only because it is such a horrible guide to the past.
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Ah-men.

As she herself quoted: Jesus said he will come 'as a thief in the night...'
NO man knows the appointed day or hour. So where she gets 30 years is
beyond me (and no, Revelations and prophecies are ALL no more
than -opinions- of those who give them meaning). At one time the Beatles
were supposedly the creatured flying from the great smoke of the pit (WWII
allegedly) just because one of the features of said creatures was long hair.
Hence the *modern* prophecies of the 60's and 70's.

Like applying meaning to Nostradamus' quatrains (already shown to be
incorrect).