Prophecy

Drum, what gives you any rational reason to prefer your particular mythology over the Lakota mythology? Not your personal preference, but a rational reason? Do you suppose that perhaps it makes a Lakota elder very sad when he sees the apocolyptic mishmash that fundamentalist Christians put out, claiming that there's some reward for a few of them in some undisclosed spot that isn't on Mother Earth?
I can see no reason to choose either of these mythologies. The Lakota at least have a buffalo to look at - a fairly unequivocal something. But "the End Times" have been at hand continuously, for one or the other of you guys' sects, for about 400 years now without anything happening. Doesn't that make you wonder just a little?

You may be right - it's about 2000 different sects, each of which makes a greater or lesser claim to be the only true version.Is 2000 guessing way too low?

I'm not interested, thanks. It's been done, as I said above, at least a couple of times a decade for the last few centuries. Now if you can show me that we are living in the end times from something E.G.E. Bulwer-Lytton wrote, it at least would be something novel.

2000 sects -- I likely will get tired of typing and forget a few, but ya got your:
Church of God Anderson Indiana
Church of God Cleveland Tennessee
Church of God Charleston Tennessee
Church of God in Christ
Church og God, The
Church of God of Prophecy
Living Church of God
United Church of God
Worldwide Church of God
Active Bible CoG
Pentecostal CoG
The Philadelphia CoG
CoG (Seventh Day)
You get the idea - that's the first two pages that Googled up. Pages 3 to 5 have another eight or so, and you can see I didn't even start on Baptists.Bulwer-Lytton will Google, too. He's a now-dead author.

Mr Pamboli, sir, I stand in awe, groveling at your feet.Drum, what difference does it make that three or four anonymous authors wrote letters in the guise of some guy named Saul or Paul, and then that 200 years later a group of church beaurocrats decided that those particular ones needed to be saved for posterity? Yes, it's a little bit deeper subject matter in parts that B-L's novelizing, but Mr Pamboli has just showed the world what real, kick-butt prophecy looks like. None of that vague "ten horns on seven heads" stuff there.....