Is 2012 another Y2K are all the Factors Present for the End of Times?

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   Leaderofmanyposted 12 years ago

   Many say that the Bible predictions have been fulfilled, have they? Is the 2012 just another Y2K or is it just the end of a calender  or the world?

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      aka-djposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      I take any dated endings with due suspicion.
      
      Christians are told of an imminent return by Christ for the Church, so, in a sense, we coud be gone tomorrow (I doubt it though).
      
      So, for Mayans to get it right is a bit far fetched, but it makes for a great script for a movie.
      (Didn't really enjoy that one much!)
      
      Watching world events and trends, however, seems to point to us living well and truly in the last of the last days.

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         wildernessposted 12 years agoin reply to this

         What makes the Christian "knowledge" superior to that of the Mayans?  Particularly as they have been saying the end is imminent for a thousand years?
         
         At least the Mayans haven't been proven wrong once each year for two millennia.

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            aka-djposted 12 years agoin reply to this

            Who said it was superior?
            
            Read my post. If an opinion is sought by the OP, that's what I gave.
            It's no life transforming doctrine, just my way of viewing the idea of the end of days.

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               wildernessposted 12 years agoin reply to this

               Sorry - I read it as the Christians have an idea of Christ coming back so the Mayan idea is far fetched  as it doesn't take that into account, but would make a great fictional story.

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                  aka-djposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                  Yes it would (make a good fictional story), but then it would become a true story AFTER it happens!

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                     wildernessposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                     Much like the return of Christ, huh?

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                        aka-djposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                        What do you mean "much like".
                        
                        That's exactly what I was saying.

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                           wildernessposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                           My apologies - as happens too often, I have misinterpreted your words and did not catch that you were treating the bible as the same kind of fiction the mayans presented.
                           
                           Sometimes these things go right over my head for some reason and this was one of them.

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            lobobrandonposted 12 years agoin reply to this

            According to the Christians it's supposed to be unknown. Revelation says that Jesus too doesn't know when it's going to happen and only God The Father knows it.

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               wildernessposted 12 years agoin reply to this

               Maybe that's why the mayan story is patently false, then.

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      Jesus was a hippyposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      The 21st december 2012 nonsense is a misinterpretation of a mayan calender. It didn't come from the bible.

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         aka-djposted 12 years agoin reply to this

         Seriously dude, do you have a comprehension problem, or maybe you are dyslexic?
         
         The post never claimed 2012 was from Christian teaching!

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            Jesus was a hippyposted 12 years agoin reply to this

            So why are the bible prophecies mentioned? Do YOU have a comprehension problem or are you just an insulting arse?

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               aka-djposted 12 years agoin reply to this

               Sorry, I can't help you.
               
               Perhaps you should get sober first, re read the post (op), and you will see that Christian views and 2012 Mayan calendar are NOT related, other than by their commonality of the end of the world.
               
               If you new anything about Bible prophecy, eschatology and doctrine, you would know that we are neither able nor permitted to "name the date and time" of the end.
               
               PS, please tone down the name calling!

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   Emile Rposted 12 years ago

   It's the end of the long count calendar. Or, who knows. Maybe the end of the world. Either way, we might as well continue on...business as usual. What could possibly be gained by fretting over it?
   
   I'd be surprised if monotheists found a way to buy into the Mayan prophecy, though. Imagine a culture that believed in human sacrifice accurately predicting the end of the world. It would tend to imply that believers in Y-H and Allah were less informed than another ancient religion, on a cosmic scale.

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   wildernessposted 12 years ago

   Yes, of course.  The earth, and mankind, still exist and that is all that necessary for the possibility of end times.
   
   In addition, though, all the prophecies of both the bible and Nostradamus have been fulfilled; all one has to do to clearly see this is interpret them properly.  Change the meaning of the words from what they say to what fits the facts of history.
   
   We are doomed!

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   Jeramiposted 12 years ago

   Those prophesy which Jesus spoke of being fulfilled were those which had already been written at that time
   And Then ...  John wrote the book of Rev. which spoke of those prophesy which he had witnessed being fulfilled and he wrote of those things which were being fulfilled at that time ..  and then he wrote of things which were to happen in the future.
   Many of those prophesy which is said to be of future events (back in 96 AD) are now in our past.
      I can not imagine it being any other way.
   Think about it. How many times is it written that when one of these prophetic events happened  that "They didn't repent”  and then  God sent the next event".
      How can 21 judgments (seals, trumpets and bowls) all happen within 3 1/2 years on earth; and we be able to tell when one ended and another began?
   Not to mention, having enough time to repent between them.

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   Jeramiposted 12 years ago

   Point being .. I think the end of days as Jesus represented them did in fact come to fulfillment around 138 AD,
   
     And the last days of indignation as foretold in the book of Revelation Chapter 16 are upon us.  The first bowl was poured out in the 14th century when the bubinic plague kills 1/2 to 2/3s of the population of Europe and Asia. Some theologians believe that WWI marks the time of the sixth bowl being poured out.

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   janesixposted 12 years ago

   What do bible predictions have to do with 2012?

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      Jeramiposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Sorry about that.
      
        The OP was about the "end of times"  so I guess I presumed ?
      
        It is my belief that the 42 months of the Beast in Rev. C 13 calculates as being finished around that time.

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         janesixposted 12 years agoin reply to this

         Oh i didnt mean you, i was asking the one who started this thread

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            Jeramiposted 12 years agoin reply to this

            That's OK .. I thought you were and that would have been an appropriate question.
            
              I think that 42 months began approx. 1644 years ago and will be coming to an end in the next few years.  Maybe the poster is thinging along those lines whether they applied the calculations or not.

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   kuhrdan1posted 12 years ago

   There is a significant flaw in the argument that the Bible represents a stable, unsullied continuity with both the historical and spiritual past. The Bible has undergone numerous translations by, unfortunately, primarily from a male perspective.  Words do not have an exact equivalence in meaning from one language to another or from one setting to another.  Hence what we have is book conaining interpretative text.  In the process of translating and interpreting it into new forms of text the orginal intentions are lost. Therefore, the matter of faith comes in.  More importantly is that women played a significant role in the development of early Christianity.  Their contributions have been obliterated from church history. A result of this is what we are experiencing in the United States of uneducated men dictating how women are to choose their medical needs. And on the flip side of the coin the Roman Catholic Church is unabashedly express virulent homophobia. Colonial history demonstrates that Biblical teachings and notions of conquest and accepting new ethnic populations as other  coincided. For instance the United States began by the migration of Christian from England and Europe, who sought liberty and freedom.  Once they landed on the continent, these Christians had not problems annihilating local Indian populations, which from my own sense, is not very Christian. I am speaking from the position of privilege as a man!

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   pisean282311posted 12 years ago

   short answer to ur question is NO....

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