http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unfulfilled_historical_predictions_by_Christians
Seems like almost every christian denomination predicts the end of the world and is wrong. What a coincidence.
2006-08-02 07:19:41 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Juanita - For example, Gregory I who was pope from 590-604 A.D predicted that the end of the world was near in a letter that he wrote to Ethelbert, a European monarch. He advised: "Further, we also wish Your Majesty to know, as we have learned from the words of Almighty God in Holy Scriptures, that the end of the present world is already near and that the unending Kingdom of the Saints is approaching. As this same end of the world is drawing nigh, many unusual things will happen—climatic changes, terrors from heaven... All these things are not to come in our own days, but they will follow upon our times."
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2006-08-02 07:26:25 · update #1
Read the bible. It writes that we will not know the exact day or hour. Instead, look for the signs of the times.
If someone predicts this & says that God told Him so & it doesn't come to pass; Person is a false prophet & needs to repent before they get thrown into the lake of fire.
Christians don't predict a specific time if God didn't reveal it to them. I am a christian & God writes that there will be a new heaven and a new earth. That is a long ways away though, because some of the biblical prophecy to be fulfilled first hasn't happened yet, like the 1000 year reign of Christ. Like the Great White Throne Judgment.
2006-08-02 07:29:07 · answer #1 · answered by t_a_m_i_l 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
None of the Churches I have been to have ever predicted a date. They say that only God knows that and that we need to be ready. But they always do say that the day is drawing near, due to all the things happening in the world. Well that is only common knowledge that we are getting closer to death each day but a lot of people have seen the big day coming for years and I do not think the world has gotten as bad as it is described in the Bible yet. So I agree with you on that part.
2006-08-02 14:30:59 · answer #2 · answered by just julie 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Seems like your understanding of end of the world is the destruction of the physical earth. DO NOT BE FOOLED!. This doomsday prophets CAPITALIZED on our fears to make them earn millions of dollars and you can count the numbers of this religious organizations that flourished in world with great churches and temples from each members contributions and exemptions from government taxes and instead of contributing to better the education system of the government they even competed with them in the guise of better moral value building.
Ecclessiastes: talks about the Generations that comes and generations that goes but the earth stood the same.
The Bible talks about the end of times when the age of informations will truly reveal the illusions we were lured into believing. It will be the war of W O R D S (not world) that will make us end this wordly desires and know exactly the difference between reality from the truth.
If ever the earth will be destroyed physically, it will be by our own human greeds, negligences and stupidities were even nature will seem to agree.
2006-08-02 14:47:36 · answer #3 · answered by Rallie Florencio C 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
>>>Seems like almost every christian denomination predicts the end of the world and is wrong<<<
My "denomination," Roman Catholicism, is probably the most sensible with regard to this issue.
Reason: it says nothing about when the end of the world will happen.
That's because Jesus Himself said that we do not know the day nor the hour, and that "the Son of Man will return when you least expect Him."
2006-08-02 14:22:53 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Swedenborg said the book of Revelation had already been fulfilled and finished by the end of the 1700s.
Jesus Christ is the "I AM" or God Himself in a visible body.
"For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily."
-- Colossians 2:9
"Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?"
-- John 14:9
"Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you Before Abraham was, I AM."
-- John 8:58
2006-08-02 14:22:46 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
i predict the real end of the world and everything in it is when your brainwaves DIE and STOP completely cause if you can't think what could is living.
but hell just cause i scored 98% on a first year calulus exam don't mean I AM always right. So to test the theory say in your head HEY POPE PIOUS F OFF and see if HE materializes.
2006-08-02 14:27:15 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
it is wrong to try to peedict the time the wrold would end, becuase not even Jesus knows when the world would end, only God knows. all the prophecies made to predist the end of the world are all FALSE. All we know is God said he is comming soon...soon could be a 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 years from now or even two minutes away, no one knows.
2006-08-02 14:26:17 · answer #7 · answered by ~Princess~From~Hell~ 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Not one! =0)
2006-08-02 14:32:11 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I do not think any church Can know the bible says it will be when we least expect it my church does not make prophasies
2006-08-02 14:28:50 · answer #9 · answered by Mim 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
None...I don't go to church.
Just an observation.....no Jehovah's Witnesses answered your question.....hmmm, wonder why??
2006-08-02 14:59:57 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋