Christianity and the End Times

jaywill writes:Am I misrepresenting you to teach that the champion of the truth in the account is not God but the serpent ?

jaywill writes:So your hero in the account is the serpent. Why am I not surprised?

jaywill writes:Since you're here to "help" people understand the Bible what did it mean for Jesus to say Let the dead bury their own dead. (Luke 9:60) ?He implies that though some men's hearts are beating and lungs are breathing and souls are active, they are on some level DEAD ?

jaywill, asking jar writes:Since you're here to "help" people understand the Bible what did it mean for Jesus to say Let the dead bury their own dead. (Luke 9:60) ?

John18:33-40 ESV writes:33So Pilate entered his headquarters again and called Jesus and said to him, Are you the King of the Jews? 34Jesus answered, Do you say this of your own accord, or did others say it to you about me? 35Pilate answered, Am I a Jew? Your own nation and the chief priests have delivered you over to me. What have you done? 36Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have been fighting, that I might not be delivered over to the Jews. But my kingdom is not from the world. 37Then Pilate said to him, So you are a king? Jesus answered, You say that I am a king. For this purpose I was born and for this purpose I have come into the worldto bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice. 38Pilate said to him, What is truth?After he had said this, he went back outside to the Jews and told them, I find no guilt in him. 39But you have a custom that I should release one man for you at the Passover. So do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews? 40They cried out again, Not this man, but Barabbas! Now Barabbas was a robber.

Phat writes:What specifically would the character Pilate, in the book, mean?

Jaywill writes:Don't be such a flaming hypocrite. This thread is on the End Times. You've been hijacking it to be about the Beginning Times and whatever else you can complain about in the Bible.

Lord, said Thomas, we do not know where You are going, so how can we know the way? 6Jesus answered, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. 7If you had known Me, you would know My Father as well. From now on you do know Him and have seen Him.

Phat writes:Why are you so hard on your opponent? You come across as having no respect for the man at all?

Phat writes:I have another one, while we are all discussing these things.....
In the context of this exchange: What specifically would the character Pilate, in the book, mean?

Phat writes:Evidently, Pilate didn't understand either...though he was honest enough to declare to the Jews that Jesus was innocent!

Phat writes:It appears that you get angry when people won't discuss a topic the way that you want it to be framed. The reality is that in debates, both sides have an opportunity to frame the debate without prejudice. Why not answer his question? Would you prefer that he go down your rabbit trail before you go down his, or do you have no intention of granting him that basic respect?

jar writes:I have no respect for those perverting the Bible and Christianity.

What does any of that have to do with Christianity and the End Times?

Phat writes: It establishes who said it...whether it was actually God talking through human authors or whether it is simply a product of human imagination. If it is the former, we may well pay attention to end times possibilities. If it is the latter, we still need to be responsible, yet not so religious.