Message from @ShadowKhukuri
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People back then reading that would have thought Apostle Paul crazy...
but he describes the social affairs of today accurately
1. Bible is not the first, but the last book to "predict" (copy-pase) apocalyptic last age
In a sense you are right @HeimatFreiheitTradition
2. Bible instructs people to be meek, weak, compassionate, passive and non-resistant, because this world is going to come to an end
@HeimatFreiheitTradition
Matthew 24:37-39New International Version (NIV)
37 As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 38 For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; 39 and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man
3. And when the world naurally does near the end, since it's strongest kind gave up it's strenght as per instruction of Bible, it says "Hey, we told you so !"
People were like today just before the flood came
which points when Jesus returning soon...
Yes, thankfully, we know what the world looked like before flood
@The Enlightened Shepherd
1. True
2. Somewhat true
3. Not sure what you mean here
What is not clear
When people become meek, weak, compassionate and passive
Their civilization decays (Not the world, but only them ! Animals can live without us)
@The Enlightened Shepherd while that is generally true, the manner in which that civilization ends is not always the same.
I can instruct you to not resist the evil, and then miraculously predict that evil shall prevail
Also, to your second point @The Enlightened Shepherd , you make a premise that seems a bit off. The Bible does not suggest to its adherents to be weak, it actually points to a time in the Book of Revelation that The God of the Bible will deliver judgment...for example, Noah did not deliver judgment himself.
Nor did his wife, his sons or their wives. But when the Ark's door was closed and the rains fell, the rest of humanity who drowned (as well as animals not of the ark) died. At the hands of the creator
Revelation suggests that judgment in the future will be similar.
Previous bible passages suggest that this God does not delegate the most harshest of judgment
e.g. "Vengeance is mine"
So adherents arent weak as you say, they just reccognize that they do not always have authority to act in judgment
Yes, now please tell me how story of Noah and Revelation fit in because between them there are some 800 more pages of Bible
This is markedly different from Wahabist/Salafist muslims
Of all books of New Testament, Revelation has to be probably the dumbest, the least creative and least inspiring
Bunch of mashed up threats of old variety, namely grasshopers mosquitoes, famine, death and misery
It is quite simple.
There have been judgments against the enemies of God and his human followers where his human followers delivered judgment. (Joshua, David and others)
And then there are other judgments not delegated to them (Sodom and Gomorrrah, the flood, Armageddon)
Yes, judgements of Jewish god Yahweh against other people because they, well, existed
But you need to understand the audience it was targeting, it was written by a Jew primarily for Jews
"Judgements" were nothing but carefully planned military conquests, which apparently fit greatly with Gospel of John eh ?
Jew who would have been familiar with the Egyptian plagues that liberated their ancestors in Eqypt for instance...
what the fuck did i just read
not all this but
that quote
omg
wtf
So, 3 millions jews running from a murderous and militarily superior Egyptian force wanting them to re-enter servitude as slaves was a carefully planned military conquest?
you can't @ everyone?
@MrGoat you mean me?