5 Shocking End Times Prophecies "The earth will become a great graveyard". The end of times

I read an article last week about a guy who said he was a time traveller from the future, come to warn us.

The world is full of loons.

Question to the op, do you genuinely believe this stuff, or are you just trolling? If it's the former, I suggest you go and chat to your doctor or some mental health specialist ASAP. It's not a healthy obsession to have.

The first Christians thought that the Book of Revelations was about the Romans sacking of of Jerusalem. They were wrong.

All predictions are placed some indistinct time in the future meaning they can can never be refuted.

Nasty bedtimes stories to keep the troops onside, if you just keep the faith you can avoid all this when God raptures you all away. Its all a bit sick really.

3 days of darkness. You can't go outside or the demons will get you. That's pretty unfair on homeless people. And don't let anyone in because it could be a demon pretending to be your mother in law. And you need to have a specific blessed candle to see. It's stuff like this that make me run away from the Church.

3 days of darkness?
That’s nothing.
Sure it’s been dark and grey since July 2023!

Precisely the sort of errant nonsense you'd expect in a thread started at 6a.m.

Does your god also have something against formatting large walls of text?

The same old crap from the same old god account.

The folk living in the polar circle won't know what hit them

"Plus you do realise that Jesus shares the same religion as Benjamin Netanyahu - they are both Jewish, Jesus was born a Jew and died a Jew. He is not a Christian"

Your comment is either deceptive or very silly and confused.

Jesus Christ's ministry is hardly accepted within mainstream Judaism. Do you know any Jews who cite Jesus Christ as a rabbi whose teachings they endorse?

Modern Judaism is descended from Phariseeism, which Jesus (as a rabbi) taught was basically the wrong way and spirit in which to understand the Scriptures (see the Gospels).

Jesus Christ himself taught the right way to understand these Scriptures and whether you split hairs about whether or not this should be called "Christianity" or something else, it is not accepted as standard Judaism by Jews or non-Jews.

I encourage everyone to become a Christian and not be held back by incoherent theology*, 'traditional' social control - not applicable in 2024, it's just a fact that the Archbishop of Dublin or whoever can't tell you what to do so if you want to be an independent Christian no one can stop you - or other tertiary objections, most of which I consider irrelevant once you think them through.

Once you pare things down to the fundamental metaphysical assumptions about existence - you can choose to believe we live in a random, and/or determined, universe or you can choose to believe something else.

Most people now treat atheism as if it were a fact to be disproved. But do they realise that they have in a way stacked the deck by starting from this assumption?

If you lived in medieval Europe all your assumptions from your culture, your family, 'public discourse', friends, colleagues etc. would lead you to first assume Christian belief was true and you would then need to think your way to becoming an atheist. Now the situation is reversed: the (cultural and intellectual) air you breathe is a-theistic.

*Like the 'traditional' mishmash of Hellenic philosophy and Christian scripture which creates all kinds of paradoxes - like having to believe in God's total omnipotence (whether that even makes sense), though that isn't clear from the Bible imo.

My atheism proceeds from my acceptance of the scientific method. If it can't be measured, described and manipulated by physical forces it doesn't exist. It would offer some comfort to believe in things I cannot prove exist - but what value is that comfort to me if I know it is based upon a lie about what I understand the world to be.

Life's meaning is the meaning we bring to our lives, our good deeds and intents are the witness to our existence and need no validation other than from our peers. If more people lived by this dictum we would live in a far better world.

I know a few very good Christians, but they are good despite their religion rather than because of it.

The scientific method covers all things which can be verified to exist. It is a belief that other things exist and a belief by it's very essence is not provable. I explicitly choose not to accept beliefs as real and this has served me well in distancing myself from all sorts of crack pot ideas both mundane and metaphysical.

Utility is my yardstick in what I accept as real - religion has zero utility to me. Why should I choose to accept things which are to all intents and purpose abstract ideas ?

I am not going to try to dissuade anyone from belief ( that is a hard and painful path that one can only ever travel alone) but I will defend my position to the end of days.

There is zero utility in a person not believing in a real physical world - because all our sense data tells us we do occupy a physical world. I know that all our sense data is simply us watching our brain processes inside our heads so ultimately could be unreal - but again there is no utility in this line of thought so I refuse to indulge it.

Speculation beyond this is just mental masturbation - a self indulgence few people have time for.

Well you had better explain that to atheists who don't believe in a real physical world then. Because there are such people.

Meanwhile, even the belief that 'utility' determines the validity of truth is assumed. How do you know this in a way you can prove - other than that it 'feels right', logical and intuitive to you?