Trying to understand
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Let's take it a bit further.
Let's say I totally agree with you that people use wild claims about end times just to sell book and collect donations.
I think that's a real thing.
But even though con men are real, the existence of the con men doesn't affect the existence of everything else... like the existence of the principles of eschatology.
There are real scholars who think we are in the end times, and other real scholars who disagree.
I think we need to first get past all the con men,
and then we can look at the real scholars who at least disagree with some sincerity and integrity, lol.
Just between you and me, it wouldn't surprise me at all if Jesus came back tomorrow but...
I'm not going to go around claiming that,
and I'm not go to stop paying my bills, or run up my credit cards.
The world looks pretty bad to me, and I wouldn't be surprised if the Lord came back any time.
But if he doesn't... that's fine with me.
I don't run the universe.
I can't even find my own socks half the time.
I think the end times discussion came about strongly when Israel became a nation in 1948.
The fact that no one seems to be able to take them down just increases end times talk.
So it goes on from there.
Now we have people going to and from around the world at great speeds.
We have knowledge increasing tremendously.
We have more wars going on in the world than we can keep track of.
There is enough end times information out there right now, that the number of books and movies giving different points of view are endless.
Where does it end?
Just when you don't expect it, that's when it ends.
The fact that no one seems to be able to take them down just increases end times talk.
So it goes on from there.
Now we have people going to and from around the world at great speeds.
We have knowledge increasing tremendously.
We have more wars going on in the world than we can keep track of.
There is enough end times information out there right now, that the number of books and movies giving different points of view are endless.
Where does it end?
Just when you don't expect it, that's when it ends.