Christianity is in decline isn't it?

Question

Jesus has been gone for 2000 years.
What if he should return and there is no Christians left?
Maybe that's what he has planned. Then he can just rapture all the dead Christians from their graves. Then he wont have to sort anything out. Just give all the living the mark of the beast and turn them over to the Devil.

Of course my rambling changes nothing. My questions aren't mint to be spiteful, hateful or to change anything. My questions are just to make people think what if? Kisses Betty.

luko seams like you have things figured out.

bagwad you dont know what you are talking about. Do some research Christions are in decline. xx

BigPappa you are delusional do some research. xx

PaulCyp and Angel Girl stop guessing and do some research?

Answer 1

Yes. There will always be some of us left. Mary, our Blessed Mother is making sure of that as we speak. She is making sure that her son is not totally abandoned again. This is also a sign of the times, The Apostasy.

Answer 2

Christianity is no longer in decline. It has already shrunk.

Though statistics shows that there are over a billion Christians today, in spiritual reality, a very large number are dead, added to the swelling numbers of atheists, agnostics, heathens, and heretics who are in darkness "having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their hearts" (Eph 4.18 ) . The smallest seed sown has enlarged its branches and was planted everywhere but, as was prophesied in the Sacred Scriptures (both in the OT and in the NT), has shrunk - widely abandoned and even trampled upon - today since the 1960's to so few a faithful, the remnant. "But yet the Son of man, when he cometh, shall he find, think you, faith on earth?" (Luke 18.8)

Answer 3

actually yes they are on a decline, while certain denominations like Catholics are gaining other Christians the net worth of Christians started its decline after world war 2 when they say how pointless it was. While in the US in the past few years its been on a rise but mostly because some people need a mental crutch for the emotional impact of 9-11.

Answer 4

Christianity is stronger than you would think. Just take a look at the Billy Graham crusade alone. It just isn't popular in this corrupt world. It gets in peoples way of doing what ever they want. Just as it did in the old Roman days. Not many people that have been gone for 2000 years are still as popular or spoken of as widely as Jesus. Can't think of any myself.

Answer 5

Some minds are disastrous. They always think of graves. Every person and particle on the earth will have its end one day. That is the law of evolution of the earth. Millions of years may take for such end. But not Christianity in particular. Every religion and every civilization is, sooner or later, bound to rise and fall. No religion or civilization is exception to this law of nature.

Answer 6

Christianity is taking over planet.

What is the fastest-growing religion on Earth?
Most news reports suggest it is Islam.
But a new book makes a compelling case it is a new, or, perhaps, old form of biblically inspired evangelical Christianity that is sweeping through places like China, Africa, India and Southeast Asia.
In "Megashift," author Jim Rutz coins a new phrase to define this fast-growing segment of the population. He calls them "core apostolics" – or "the new saints who are at the heart of the mushrooming kingdom of God."
Rutz makes the point that Christianity is overlooked as the fastest-growing faith in the world because most surveys look at the traditional Protestant denominations and the Roman Catholic Church while ignoring Christian believers who have no part of either.
He says there are 707 million "switched-on disciples" who fit into this new category and that this "church" is exploding in growth.
"The growing core of Christianity crosses theological lines and includes 707 million born-again people who are increasing by 8 percent a year," he says.
So fast is this group growing that, under current trends, according to Rutz, the entire world will be composed of such believers by the year 2032.
"There will be pockets of resistance and unforeseen breakthroughs," writes Rutz. "Still, at the rate we're growing now, to be comically precise, there would be more Christians than people by the autumn of 2032, about 8.2 billion."
According to the author, until 1960, Western evangelicals outnumbered non-Western evangelicals – mostly Latinos, blacks and Asians – by two to one. As of 2000, non-Western evangelicals outnumbered Westerners by four to one. He says by 2010, the ratio will be seven to one.
"There are now more missionaries sent from non-Western nations than Western nations," he writes.
This trend, says Rutz, has been missed by Westerners because the explosive growth is elsewhere.
Hundreds of millions of these Christians are simply not associated with the institutional churches at all. They meet in homes. They meet underground. They meet in caves. They meet, he says, in secret.

Answer 7

Christ did not create a religon! others have in his name. just because you are a christian does not mean you are a true follower of his. When the holy spirit shall walk the earth once more it wont just be for christains but for all. God leaves no one behind, he his perfect he would never give any of his childern the mark. the devil if not real.

Answer 8

I think certainly in australia christianity is on the decline, but I don't think jesus is only for the christians, I think man made religions has made that so. I think jesus message is extremely important to all mankind and he wouldn't turn his back on anyone, he understands all.

Answer 9

I don't think so, I think there are 1 billion Christians in the world. There are many churches around the world. I'm afraid that Christanity is here to stay.

Answer 10

Its not on the decline. In fact its growing. More people are converting to it. Just look at how much it has grown in Turkey.
Though I believe if Jesus came to us now he would be disgusted in what we turned his religion into.