Create an "Eschatology" forum

Create an Eschatology forum specifically for discussion of the end times.

Can't imagine anything going askew here.

There has to be a large enough demand or need for a new subforum to even be considered. Your request has neither.
Also the number of subforums is purposefully kept low, which makes it even harder to get a new one created.
There are end times discussions in the BDF. Or you can make your own threads there on the subject.

Sounds like a spin-off from the BDF.

Oh no!
Not just for eschatology....

A "worn out" forum for all those topics that are worn out. Like Sabbath worship, KJV only, and Calvinism doctrines...
Possibly Baptism of the HS and tongues vs regular Baptism, divorce and remarriage,
Catholicism and the pope too.

Then there won't be much else to discuss....because these topics are 90% of the conversations in the theology forum.

Granted, occasionally I'll pick up one of these...but not often.

It's not like most people really have theological questions that they bring to the forums anymore. 90% is just to argue and preach their point of view. Like flat Earth, lizard people, man on moon hoax, and of course the latest conspiracy nutjobs....the antivaxxers.
It seems that most people are interested in division instead of unity.

So....
I do have prophesy questions but there's no one that I've met that can answer them definitively. And the above topics do suck all the oxygen out of the room. No one can accurately begin to discuss Old Testament prophesy fulfillment without diving headlong into their own eschatology theories.

But that's people....
There's not many on the forums that actually have something more than a populist viewpoint of scripture interpretation that flows out of the thousands of pulpits. Actual scholarship that actually uses science plus art to explain the "difficult" scriptures.

Kinda heady discussions for those who stick to populist theologies. Of course so many people have difficulty understanding the main, plain things like what the Sabbath Worship Commandment really says it's kinda like a big banner that says, "leave scholarship behind and turn your caps lock on"
But sometimes even low brow questions like explaining the formula stated in scriptures of what God does with prayers is considered high scholar questions.

Kinda depressing....

So....

My wife and I are writing a lesson plan and book for small groups that should be easily consumable. It walks people through the methods and resources of Hermeneutics without being so highbrow with a bunch of difficult words to understand. There are other books on the subject but they are either difficult to consume or just use bad, illogical skills to arrive at predetermined theologies. (Kinda obvious too)
I've read through most guides available. The truth is not as available as it once was. But it's the silver pin in a literal haystack of chrome ones. So don't think you are gonna get it out without getting poked if you do happen to find it.

In the meantime I don't know what to tell you.

I was thinking more CCDF.

Wat dat mean? Sounds sinister. Maybe my type of place to meander through.

Just a little eschatological humor.

Short version: It won't happen. But there's the Bible Discussion Forum. They play real rough over there, but it's the best we got for posting threads about eschatology.

christian eschatology forums? Should really "keep you busy", eh?

Yahoo = "About 145,000 search results", but hey, why not? = 145,OO1, eh?

Of course, with all the "biting and devouring one another" maybe God would be
More Pleased with "About 411,000 search results" for:

christian "Grace Through faith" forums?

Just sayin'...

I agree. I noticed it myself.

That might be a good idea. Would it only be a forum where you can argue positions?

I would like it include how you prepare for the Lord's return especially since the Lord will only collect us AFTER the great tribulation. That would mostly be about building your faith to endurance - the spiritual foundation is the most important.

Then maybe discuss how God will provide for His children despite not being able to buy and sell. Because a lot of Christians right now don't really believe He can provide food and shelter for them like He did for Israel on their journey to the promised land.

There's also handling the intense persecution of the great tribulation.

Then there's the fact that most Christians will get killed. I think most Christians right now are actually scared of it. We need to strengthen their faith about that.

And finally, some Christians will survive the entire ordeal of the great tribulation. It would be nice to study how God kept the few Jews who survived alive through the Holocaust to give an idea how God will do the same for the surviving Christians.

Then we can also talk about the Millennial Age and what it might be like to be able to enjoy the world the way the Lord had intended the Garden of Eden to be like. I'm from the Philippines and I would love to fix that place.....

So I think the Eschatology Forums could be very useful in this way and not just for arguing the different positions.


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There's no way it won't devolve into more arguing than anything else. The BDF wasn't created to argue, but that's the place to go to argue. Creating an entirely new forum to discuss all the things already discussed in the BDF just means two forums for them to argue in.

He said that like it's a BAD thing...

But that forum can also discuss preparation. Because whether you believe in Pre-, Mid-, Post- and No Rapture, there's always some sort of call to prepare for whatever position one believes in.

*Shrug* It's okay if the request for this forum is not granted though, because you're right, we can argue in the BDF and also talk about preparation in other various forums already opened.


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The foreign language subforums need to be merged. There hardly any activity.

Totally agree with this.