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6/6/06, the end of the world?

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didn't happen june 6 1906, or june 6 1806, or june 6 1706. But then again, this is the approximate 2000th anniversary year of his death. . . oooEEEEEoooEEEEoooooo. . .:P
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We had a thread about this over in Bonfire. Ithink it's GFD's birthday. >:(

Anyway, over the last few decades there have always been these people making Apocalypse predictions. Then the date passes and the set a new one! This time for sure!

So we decided after all these failed predictions that if it doesn't happen on June 6 of this year, we'll just have to hold an apocalypse boogie or something. We'll need 4 horsemen, an antichrist, a beast with 7 eyes and 7 horns, a crapload of ArchAngels, and a CASA....and maybe a beer truck if we can get one.

I vote we let the freeflyers play the Forces of Darkness.
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...oh yeah. All the jump tickets will have "666" printed on them.:P
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I'll bet you $666 that the world doesn't come to an end on that day.



can you give me your address so i can come round and collect my winnings if it does :)


Uh . . . think about the logic of what you just wrote. lol
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But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only. But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. Then two men will be in the field: one will be taken and the other left. Two women will be grinding at the mill: one will be taken and the other left. Watch therefore, for you do not know what hour your Lord is coming. But know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into. Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.
Matthew 24:36-44

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is coming at an hour you do not expect.



So, since there are millions of people that always expect the world to come to an end at any moment, doesn't that kind of, well, you know, prevent it from happening?

I mean, if it can ONLY happen at a time you do not expect and we can safely assume that at least a few people -are- expecting it at any given moment . . .
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So the only defense the universe has against ending is that people are idiots?

That is kind of cool. Maybe idiots do have a purpose, after all. How funny would it be if we finally got rid of all the idiots, and then the world ended?

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So the only defense the universe has against ending is that people are idiots?

That is kind of cool. Maybe idiots do have a purpose, after all. How funny would it be if we finally got rid of all the idiots, and then the world ended?

Brent



That's going a bit far.

I would never want to call a person an idiot for having a religious viewpoint or having a certain belief system. I might not agree with it, but that doesn't make the person an idiot.

That said, I do not understand some of the logic behind some of it.

Believe it or not, I kinda like the Bible. Has some very nice allegories in it. I just don't agree with the very first and very last parts of it because they do not make sense to me.
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I just don't agree with the very first and very last parts of it because they do not make sense to me.



Would Genesis make sense if it was an allegorical story about how Jews saw their place in history?

Would Revelation make sense if you read it from a preterist view.

Not all Christians a fundamentalist, nor creationist, nor premillennial dispensaltionalist.:)

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Would Genesis mae sense if it was an allegorical story about how Jews saw their place in history?

Would Revelation make sense if you read it from a preterist view.

Not all Christians a fundamentalist, nor creationist, nor premillennial dispensaltionalist.


what he said.

why do so many people outside of Christianity characterize ALL Christians as being fundamentalist extremists? The vast majority of Catholics and mainstream Protestants are not like that.
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If I write something in a book and store it away for a 1000 years and say that god told me to write it does it make worth quoting?



Only if you're credible, you have lots of other credible witnesses supporting the facts that your stating about the events and yourself, that your documentation can be shown through textual criticism to be accurate and written close to the time frame of the events, that what you write matches up with recorded history, and if it can be shown to be supernatural in origin due to it matching up with many other documents containing prophesied events and claims to be "of God." That would be a start.

Added: Oh right... And in your testimony (supported by everyone else), it needs to include a person, claiming to be God himself, living a sinless life, fulfilling all the prophesy of the Messiah, performing miracles including raising the dead, predicting his own persecution and death, and being tortured, crucified, killed, and resurrected for the sins of the world. That would help... ;)

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So, since there are millions of people that always expect the world to come to an end at any moment, doesn't that kind of, well, you know, prevent it from happening?



I like it!

Kinda like the sky falling on our heads tomorrow - but tomorrow never comes:P
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Well, I saw a billboard on the side of the freeway this morning that said:
"6-6-06
All the signs are out there."

Pretty lame if you ask me that someone would believe it and pay to have a billboard tell everyone that the rapture is coming soon!



I'm pretty sure that the signs are teasers for a remake of the movie "The Omen". It's being released that day.

Nice way to see the serious side of eveything though :P

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Would Genesis make sense if it was an allegorical story about how Jews saw their place in history?



I wouldn't have a real issue with that, however, there are quite a number of people that can't separate the mythological aspects from what is historical. A literal interpretation of Genesis simply does not make sense today.

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Would Revelation make sense if you read it from a preterist view.



Actually, Revelations makes far more sense as a future tense allegory than Genesis does, but again, to me, makes no sense whatsoever looked at as an actual prediction of things to come.
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