Vacate writes:
All I see from the phophecies are an excuse to ruin our planet, encourage terrorism, and scan the news to find something, anything, that could be vaguely linked to a phophecy. This does not promote humanities development, nor make any attempt to save this planet.
Hear, Hear!
Your observation goes to the heart of the matter.
As former CEO of a minor Environmentalist group, I was attacked in the media by a fundy preacher who asserted:
quote:
"The ecologist is in conflict with humanity ... God is going to roll up this old earth, throw it away, and give us a new one."
The preacher's venemous attack reminded me of where my own mind had been prior to becoming that of a godless eco-nut. I perceived that he spoke for much of Christendom and that his exegesis was incorrect. I believed that Chrisianity's festering religio-political chancre of disbelief required healing and that my best contribution to the environmental movement might be realized in effectively refuting such sermons. The man's words stimulated my return to Bible Study and, after a decade of research, my thesis:
Bible writers make no mention of planet earth.
It is not difficult to demonstrate the cause of confusion surrounding this term (earth). Resolution of the problem does not, in my opinion, lessen the beauty or meaninfulness of the holy scripture but rather purges from it the superfluous inanity called: "End Time Prophecy." My offering of fact in this matter has been resisted by hard core believers; not unlike the resistance offered to heliocentric theory. I find it interesting that the same people who once claimed that the Bible never mentions earth as a planet, are now saying that it does. Well, they were right the first time.
I have previously argued the point in this forum and would be happy to do so again if you are inclined to participate. We may be required to open another thread for that purpose.
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