Godless Business

May 21, 2011 – The Second Coming

  • http://www.facebook.com/NRParsons Nathan Parsons

    For someone professing to KNOW EVERYTHING, he seems to know very little. Delusions of grandeur perhaps?

    He does have a point though; you can only compare scripture with scripture, comparing it with reality leaves scripture looking really shaky, although you have to be extremely careful about which bits of scripture you compare together because otherwise they might just contradict each other, and we wouldn't want that now would we?

    How many second comings have actually been predicted? How many have come?

    I wonder how they worked out the date for this second coming. It seems like an arbitrary date (and probably is), how can they actually believe that that is the date.

    • http://intensedebate.com/people/askegg askegg

      The best people to ask about failed predictions are the Jehovah's Witness. A laugh a minute with those guys.

    • Rev Fred

      2 Peter, Chapter 3
      3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after 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 the creation.
      5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
      6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
      7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/GodlessNige GodlessNige

    Quick mark May 21 in your diary/iCal/Outlook.

    At least it happens AFTER my birthday, so I can have one last pissup before I get sucked down into hell. I look forward to seeing that bloke down there.

    • http://intensedebate.com/people/askegg askegg

      Hey – Satan just wanted freedom from the tyranny of god. What's not to like?

  • http://twitter.com/damejared @damejared

    That woman asking the question would make a pretty go agnostic if she just started noticing the contradictions and spent a little more time outside of the "Bible" and reading more about science and true history.

    • http://intensedebate.com/people/askegg askegg

      Excellent! I like it when people start to think.

    • Rev Fred

      The world is in such a mess our only hope is God's return. You who don't want him to return, ask yourself: Who is going to help the world. The world is truly beyond any human help. No jobs, no money, no future. Greed and violence and vice has already destroyed our world. Now our only salvation is the Lord's intervention.

  • http://thingsfindothinks.com AndrewFinden

    1 Thess. doesn't say believers will know when Christ will return – it just says that we won't be surprised by it – as if we'd been robbed.

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