''In the last days will come ridiculers''...and why?

by Aussie Oz 3 Replies latest jw friends

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  Aussie Oz

  With so many groups and individuals in even just our lifetime, let alone going back 150 years or more, predicting and consistently getting the times wrong for the great tribulation and armageddon as well as the rapture etc,

  Is it any surprise that the masses reject the message from any of the current crop of 'prophets'?

  To mention just a few that i am aware of, our own obves and lars as well as Harold Camping, Gordon Ritchie, and Second Adventists incl JWs for example, and i know there are many many more. Some of these people and groups are downright clever. The charts and proofs can bamboozle the most ardent student, they can impress the with shear effort put into constructing elaborate theories.

  Just how is the common man, IF he is interested, to sort through so much rubbish and speculation, charts and timetables, numerology and decoding, visionary interpretations and the like to actualy find 'truth'? Surely it is impossible. These ones, releigions and individuals must surely be accountable in the eyes of any god they claim to be following.

  Should the biblical armageddon ever actually come, and hordes of incredulous non believers be wiped out, these ones must be prepared to bare bloodguilt for misleading the many. Sure, the bible says many will say ''where is this... why things have always been like this''...etc, but why are people ridiculing these end time doomsday prophets?

  Because they are so consistenty wrong, time and time again, over and over again they recalculate, go back to their precious book of gobbledegook and come up with some new date. On top of this bloodguilt should one of these groups actually prove to be accurate, should be placed the very god they claim propogated their teaching. Simply put, this 'god' is unwilling to give clear concise information to people, instead it seems, to rely on some individual suddenly having an epiphany about unlocking the code of Daniel or something at the 11th hour in mankinds history.

  They are making christianity a mockery. They are the self fullfilling prophecy. Create the ridicule and claim it proves them right when it happens.

  oz
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  Mat

  It makes sense if you believe that even the bible is false. The truth is that the first century Christians thought the end would be in their generation, and they were wrong.

  Now we have a religion that has outlived its sell by date and is only kept alive by the amazing capacity for humans to rationalise erroneous beliefs in the face of overwhelming evidence against it. This is caused by a phenomenon called "confirmation bias" as well as desire to conform to a group. In real life the little boy who pointed out that the Emperor had no clothes on would be ridiculed and beaten up for being so stupid.
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  still thinking

  They are fullfilling the prophecies......These are the men of lawlessness.....well at least the most blatant.

  2 Tim 3:2 People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy

  Mat 24:36 No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.

  Acts 1:7 He said to them: "It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority.

  Mark 13:21 At that time if anyone says to you, 'Look, here is the Christ!' or, 'Look, there he is!' do not believe it.

  Mark 13:22 For false Christs and false prophets will appear and perform signs and miracles to deceive the elect--if that were possible.

  Luke 17:23 Men will tell you, 'There he is!' or 'Here he is!' Do not go running off after them.
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  ProdigalSon

  What an excellent observation, AussieOz. This God has had his finger on the trigger so many times and never pulled it. If he expects us to keep believing that today is different from every other day, then he expects us to be mentally ill. And if we are mentally ill, how can we be judged?