Really?
Just reading through it again:
"Curious....
Do you base your entire argument on one line of the article?
Do you really think that justifies your opinions?
Seems like a good way to shoot yourself in the face."
I would never have guessed
anything there was predicated on the premise that one can actually know the bible is verifiable through action on its principles and precepts. Perhaps you could make that clearer next time.
Seems pretty clear--- I asked you a couple of questions, regarding your statements, and I then made a statement on how obtuse I thought the statements you made were, in a manner that would show the magnitude of the obtuseness.
Like you know what atheists think.
Well, they don't do a very good job of hiding their views, preventing the average thinking person, who's been observing their statements for over 17 years, from seeing them clearly.
Or is your point that no one who disagrees with the views of the atheists are allowed to think for themselves, and must, under all circumstances, regardless, only agree with the way that atheists want them to think?
As you say, those of you who follow Jesus have been saying this for millennia. And still no apocalypse!
As it is written.....
It is yet for a time appointed.
Dan 11:27 NKJV - "Both these kings' hearts [shall be] bent on evil, and they shall speak lies at the same table; but it shall not prosper, for the end [will] still [be] at the appointed time.
Dan 11:35 NKJV - "And [some] of those of understanding shall fall, to refine them, purify [them], and make [them] white, [until] the time of the end; because [it is] still for the appointed time.
So, don't think that because you have not yet seen, or heard about it taking place, it's not going to happen.
Even Peter deals with this in his letter.
1 Beloved, I now write to you this second epistle (in
both of which I stir up your pure minds by way of reminder), 2 that you may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us, the apostles of the Lord and Savior, 3
knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts, 4 and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation.” 5 For this they willfully forget: that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of water and in the water, 6 by which the world that then existed perished, being flooded with water. 7 But the heavens and the earth which are now preserved by the same word, are reserved for fire until the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
8 But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day
is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. 9
The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.
The Day of the Lord
10 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. 11 Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner
of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, 12 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? 13 Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.
Be Steadfast
14 Therefore, beloved, looking forward to these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, without spot and blameless; 15 and consider
that the longsuffering of our Lord
is salvation—as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given to him, has written to you, 16 as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which untaught and unstable
people twist to their own destruction, as
they do also the rest of the Scriptures.
17 You therefore, beloved, since you know
this beforehand, beware lest you also fall from your own steadfastness, being led away with the error of the wicked; 18 but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
To Him
be the glory both now and forever. Amen.
So.... fret not. It's coming when God decides the time is right. Not a minute before, nor a minute later.
Jesus said it would happen within the lifetime of some of his disciples. Paul said it would happen in his life time. Still nothing.
No. Actually Paul did not say that.
Jesus said that the generation that sees all these things shall not pass away until all is fulfilled.
As the apostles, and disciples of his did not see all that was described in his sermon, it was for yet a time appointed, just as Daniel was told in Daniel 11.
Why is that, do you think?
Because you've bought into a lie, that is not stated in the bible, but by corrupted people who have rejected Jesus.