Can You Categorically Deny That We May Be Living In The 'End Times' ?

Question

Considering the monumental dangers of our time, the spread of Radical Islam, the removal of God from our schools, courthouses, and society, have you ever stopped your daily routine and 'considered' that this turmoil is exactly what the Bible foretold ?
Heck, hating Christians has become 'en vogue' .

And politicians have now become accustomed to distancing themselves from God . In favor of a more liberal/vacant platform . Some may say this has happened before in history, so 'don't worry' this can't be any different . But that's a ridiculous argument, because there wasn't any WMD's that can wipe-out the world and it's peoples .
Can you categorically deny that this is what the Bible was referring to ? And if not... . . .Then doesn't it MERIT further thought ?

Answer 1

Everyone alive today will be dead in 100 years

Answer 2

I cant deny that it is possible. The population is rising at an alarming rate so I believe somthing has to happen in the next 50 years. We may have food and energy shortages that could trigger mass war. The global warming trend is also disturbing(watch the documentary an inconvenient truth). Wether these issues are biblical prophecies I cant say. So many of the recent so called prophets have been wrong and sometimes out to lunch. This is something I follow somewhat, but it is difficult to dig through the garbage and find the truth. You cite the bible yet many theologists sharply disagree on interpretations. These are people who devote their lives to the word. How can the average layman get the right answers? Your question is good and a fascinating subject but I think it is impossible to answer at this time.

Answer 3

Indeed, it does merit futher thought. This is not the same as saying that it's necessarily true, of course. And no, it cannot be categorically denied, any more than you can categorically deny that the world will in fact end in 2012 with the return of Quetzelcoatl as foretold in the Aztec calender, or that it won't really "end" until the sun has burnt out in another 5 billion years (according to astrophysicists). All I'm saying is that there's an argument for everything, and that alone doesn't determine its proof so much as inductive reasoning.

And I would like to point out that because "there wasn't any WMD's" isn't quite true when one considers such things as the plague which by many accounts nearly ended the world way back in the medieval era; still, who's to say whether it'll be fire or ice, as the poem goes?

Answer 4

I cannot categorically deny it as you so eloquently put it. However, I'm not about to start believing it either. Once we start thinking end-times are nigh, then my friend they will be.

Also, consider your source of apocolypse rhetoric. Of course the Bible is going to say when people quit believing in Christianity (which by the way is not the case at all) or when Christianity becomes a little less under radar (again, not happening) or when Christianity is taken out of the government/school (which is not a bad idea), that the end of times is near. Their goal is to scare people into believing so they can keep the money rolling in.

I will not disagree that these are troubled times what with Nuclear weapons and all the hate that seems to be going around, however, it is not something I am going to sit in my house and worry about. Thanks and have a nice day.

Answer 5

During the 14th century, The Black death wiped out half the population of Europe - half. Certainly they must have thought they were living in the end times as well.

I think the world would be a whole lot better off if people expended their energies to make this a better place for everyone, rather than sitting on their packed bags reading their bible waiting to be rescued and taken to heaven. It might make you a good Christian, but it certainly doesn't make you a very good human being.

And please stop with the tired paranoia. No one hates Christians.

Answer 6

Yes, I categorically deny it.

The reason: My spiritual philosophy (also my spiritual guru and Melchizedek and many others): The world goes through cycles of good and bad times.

compared to world wars, intense cold war and financial depression times, things are lot better. Don't worry about radical religions, because it's just their frustration that iraq, afghanistan, pakistan etc. were once occupied by developed christian countries and even now US have a very large influence on many arab countries.

Going forward things should be lot better.

People needs to be less religious and more spiritual though.

Answer 7

You could have said this 4000 years ago when the Jews broke from the pagans, or 2000 years ago when Christians were persecuted, and a few years later when they turned the tables, and 600 years later when Islam began, and again during the various crusades. At the heart of this are people who vehemnantly deny other people the right to religious freedom including the lack of religion, reject moderate civil secularism, and exagerate anything anyone does that doesn't agree with their limited view of the world. I'd start with the man in the mirror and work my way out from there if I was you.

Answer 8

you mean other than the fact that the 'modern' version of the end of times was built by taking different parts of the Bible out and piecing them together in the mid 1800's? and the fact that people have thought it was the end of the world for as long as we have had advanced thought?... nah, I guess can't :P but seriously. the world will go on, take a breath and relax.. if I'm right.. then you are waisting your time worrying for no reason.. if I'm wrong.. you are waisting your (even smaller amount of) time worrying for something you can't control anyway...

Answer 9

Things could be worse. You are only analyzing the worst things in our world now. Can you categorically assert that these are the end times, or what can the end times will be like? No, you can't. The bible says something bad will happen that will end humanity. Wow, what a hypothesis. If someone happens that ends humanity I would consider that bad, it's going to happen eventually but don't cling to that bible so hard.

Answer 10

When the bible was written the people considered the middle east to be 'the world'. So we can't put much faith in that.

How old are you? Don't you know about the escalation of nuclear bombs in the 50's and 60' where Russia and the US could blow up the world many times over?

Answer 11

Yes. I categorically deny it.

People have been saying this exact same thing for thousands of years. And if you think the world is more dangerous now, try going back to 1918 and catching the flu, or to 1348 and getting the plague. I'll take the modern era any day.