How is the human race doomed?

Question

I'm seriously, not an adult, and I have no clue what's going on in politics and society... I hear too many people today saying that the world is doomed and etc.

Basically if you can, please fill me in.

Answer 1

This age of man of whom Satan has blinded is doomed until the return of Jesus Christ.....The whole world will see Jesus is pictured in the book of Revelation as the resurrected Savior, the Messiah who is preparing to return to earth a second time. "I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore" (Revelation 1:18).

He came to earth the first time to save us from our sins. He will come a second time to save us from ourselves.

Initially at least, it will not be a pretty sight. Revelation 6:16-17 describes Him as coming in wrath because of mankind's continued refusal to obey His laws and the world's continual slide into evil and self-destructiveness. His return is announced with the sounding of trumpets ushering in monumental calamities on the earth (chapters 8 and 9). Yet in all of this it is His great concern for mankind that leads to this righteous anger.

Although most people missed Jesus' first coming, no one will miss His second. Jesus said all the people of the earth "will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory" (Matthew 24:30).

Jesus gave a vision to His apostle John, recorded for us in the book of Revelation. In it Jesus completes the prophecies He gave during His earthly ministry. It's most interesting to note that He will not be accepted by the world the second time, just as He wasn't accepted at His first coming. When He comes the second time, He won't come as one announcing the Kingdom of God, He will come as Ruler to establish the Kingdom of God!

Make no mistake—the nations will again reject Him. He speaks of the time of His return as being "the great day of His wrath," when the nations are angry at God's intervention (Revelation 6:16-17; 11:17-18). Leaders of the whole world will "gather ...to the battle of that great day of God Almighty," in which they will fight against Him (Revelation 16:14).

At Jesus' second coming He is pictured as One who "judges and makes war" (Revelation 19:11). He will "strike the nations" with a sword and tread "the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God" (verse 15).

Such passages make it clear that the world will not receive Christ with open arms when He comes back. This is the other side of the picture of Jesus that is not taught very much today. When He returns, He will meet with a hostile reception from the world—just as He did the first time.

This is perhaps the most important picture of Jesus in the Bible, because this is the Jesus Christ the entire world will meet sometime in the coming years—perhaps in the not-too-distant future.

Answer 2

With all of the advances we have made in technology and also socially, we still have not eliminated several things -

Racism, crime, hunger, shelter, sanitation, ... the list goes on.

Can we really end racism? Possibly, but even if we do, some races may continue to favor their own because of the past acts of other races. In the end, this amounts to racism itself. A vicious cycle, indeed.

Crime will remain a problem. Someone out there always thinks that they can take what they want, or hurt who they want, and as long as they don't get caught right away, they have gotten away with the crime, even if only for a short time.

The truth about hunger is really sad. The world produces enough foodstuffs to feed every person a decent balanced diet daily. Still not being done, although some are working on it.

Sanitation seems to go with shelter pretty well so I will combine the two. Simply put, we (humanity) have the ability to correct this problem also. We have not.

Finally, the main point is that there will always be those who oppress others for the purpose of making promises that never get fully realised. It is the corrupt in this world - those who intend to do harm to others - that create the problems that society and its various cultures end up investing so much time, money, manpower, etc in an attempt to solve, but the truth is this is just as futile as the war on drugs. Only when the profit of those who do the things mentioned is removed will humans as a race be able to succeed.

No, I'm not a liberal, or a humanist, I am a realist and recognize the many problems that exist and believe that life sentences might be the answer to all of these (and almost any other) problem we as people, face.

Answer 3

Lately, there has been a lot of "doomsday" talk, and a lot of doomsday scenario documentaries on cable television - I think that's what you're referring to. There are about a dozen or so basic ways the earth as we know it could end. Some are complete, like an asteriod or comet big enough to totally annihilate all life on the planet, but most offer a glimmer of hope for human survivors.

Just look at the listing of shows on channels like the History Channel, Discovery, TLC and National Geographic. You've got mega disaster this and mega disaster that - mega tidal waves, mega earthquakes, mega volcanoes, mega hurricanes and tornados, return of the ice age, global warming gone wild, deadly pandemics and attacks from viruses, etc...

We've known about a lot of these things for a while now, it's just that most of them haven't happened in a long time, so some people think we're due for something really bad to happen. Another part of these documentaries is that we should try and create preventative measures and ways of dealing with these disasters before they happen so that not so many people will be hurt and there will be more survivors.

You're right, though, too many people seem obsessed with this subject.

I read a cartoon the other day - it had a homeless person on the street holding a sign that said," Repent, doomsday and the end of the world is near." Someone walking past looks at the sign and says," I remember when that used to be funny."

So I guess a lot more people take it more seriously than in times past. But it doesn't necessarily mean something terrible is definitely going to happen in the near future - it isn't set in stone or anything. Some disaster could happen tomorrow or nothing terrible could happen for centuries - you just never know. All you can do is prepare the best you can for such an occurrence and hope that it doesn't happen, you know, try and be more positive about it.

If we were really smart, we've figure out how to build enough spaceships for everyone to board - then we could evacuate the planet if something that extreme was ever needed.

Well hope all this information fills you in!!!

Answer 4

Some thought the world would end at the change of the millennium. That was in the years of 1000 and 2000. Don't listen to anyone who could believe that a nicely rounded year number means doom.

Answer 5

Start listening to people with positive attitudes rather than the nay sayers.

Every age has had prophets of doom. Every age has had wars. Every age has had natural disasters. This one is no different.

In the words of Gandhi, "Be the change you wish to see in the world." In my words " For as long as war is allowed to be considered, it shall be an answer". You are coming of age. It is up to you and your generation to start making a decision. Hold your politicians and parents accountable. Don't let them convince you that idealism is a thing for children, and that adults have to learn to work with the system. WE CREATE THE SYSTEM. WE CAN CHANGE IT.

Even being young, you can raise your voice. You can make a difference. Don't go with the flow. When you hear "The world is doomed", challenge those who say it and ask what they are doing to change that. If you see someone complaining about global warming, but driving their car 4 blocks to the store, call them on it.

You have a mind. You have a voice. Make a difference.

Answer 6

Don't worry. People have been saying that for years. It's usually because they're angry about something (like politics, global warming, etc) and like to think their anger is justified, and that whatever they're angry about is SO bad that it will destroy the world. Unless they're talking about the earth falling into the sun or something, it's definitely an exaggeration.

Answer 7

I observed the sweedish chainsaw one till now. And the saddest hing is, they do no longer positioned those labels on products till some one has accomplished it. do you recognize any guy that could desire to purpose and end a blade along with his junck? Boys how does that make you experience?

Answer 8

Well.. nothing lasts forever so naturally human beings will eventually go the way of the dinosaur but I don't think thats going to happen anytime soon. Its just the Christians freaking out over nothing like they've always done. Ignore it.

Answer 9

There are many skin colors among the human race. We're all doomed to continue to have the same blood color.

Answer 10

the world is in constant decay just like my love life. I go to church twice a week and alsways go straight home. My sister wants to come back to my church and we both suggested sunday night..and she is sociable so who knows.