I'm a christian and in the past, I have doubted the existence of "god". I grew up as a christian mainly because I was brought up that way.... I doubted god for the most common reason... Because no one can see him.


But it's like every time I read the bible, something just feels so true about it. Everything it says just seems so real. Especially 'Revelations'. One of the main reasons why I believe in god today are because of 'Revelations'.... Revelations scares the crap out of me because it talks about how during the end of times disaster, wars, poverty, disease, and stuff like that occurs.. It's a lot to explain but you'll have to read it yourself... But a lot of what it says in the bible, it's really happening now...


Also, do you think the world as we know it will come to an end this year? I'm nervous, yet not nervous at the same time.

I don't really care for it nor believe it. Mayans were humans just like all us, they didn't have foresight or super powers. People look into things too much, with the whole end of their calender thing.

I red somewhere last month that it was all proved to be false anyway. Doesn't bother me either way.

That was way more upbeat than what I thought you were going to post.

So in a sense, the world ended for them, right?

Yes, but they weren't as advanced and smart like we are. Well...some of us anyway. Not really wanting to brush on my history right now buuuuut, they either died out because they were conquered by someone else or they had too many diseases and stuff. I find it ridiculous people are buying into this theory and think all hell will literally break loose on that day :/

Rapture mentals are just the worst. Look, the world isn't ending this year, or this century or this millenium. The world will end some 4-6 billion years from now when the sun expands greatly in size & either engulfs the earth entirely or at least comes so close to it so to basically it into a barren, desolate wasteland, a bigger Mercury.

Homo Sapiens as we know it will be long gone by that point, having evolved into new species. Maybe our ancestors will all die when the earth dies, maybe they will be leaving on other planets orbiting other stars. Maybe we'll have just blown ourselves the fuck up. But the earth itself? We do know how that will go.

you dick.....

and on the lines of building alignment towards the sun etc the Mayans were not the only ones to do this, so did the ancient Britons, Anatolians etc etc etc just because you can align a building does not mean you can predict the end of the world... And i hope you don't eat shellfish because if you have, your not being raptured.... oh or eating meat on a friday..... because according to the bible thats against god's wishes and you aint going to be raptured if you do!!

my point being, the bible has a lot of good things in it, and is essentially a message to be nice to each other... but you shouldn't believe everything in it, or take it all without questioning it.... Or was the world really made in 6 days and is only 6000 years old?

Technically in the New Testament, Jesus is like "hey, you know all those dumb rules in the book of laws? Yeah, I think they're mostly pretty silly. You don't need to do all that."

Nobody knows when the end of the world is. Personally, I hope the book of Revelations comes to pass in my lifetime. However, I'm pretty sure, and it is my beliefs that the book of revelations is actually telling the story of what will happen to every indiviual when they die. It's all very symbolic.

And yea, all those don't eat meat on Friday rules got tossed out.

And no, I don't hate gays.

Christianity is confusing, but you have to remember that a lot of things that were said were parables, and a lot of things were also symbolic rather than literal. The earth being 6000 years old and being created in 6 days, was it 6 days in our time, or 6 days in God time? God experiences time and place in a very different way than we do. In fact, time itself is actually a product of mans imagination, derived from the situation we are living in. God, in his alternate universe (so to speak) does not experience the passing of time like we do. Those 6 days for him, could have been 600000 years for him. The 6000 years the world has existed, could also be different than how we think of 6000 years.

The end of the world is not something to be scared of, if you are a faithful Christian who believes in the salvation through Jesus Christ. A lot of terrible things are going to happen, but if we are the humans who must endure it, we have to look at the promise of the glory days with Jesus.

Fact is, we're probably not going to endure it anyway. So no big deal.

And that Mayan crap, meh...

I see God in every kind gesture a person does to another living being in the planet. The world won't end, earth will end someday in a long long future, and by the way I'm not a Christian, but I respect other people's opinions ;) (PS I'm trying to talk about my own opinions in the forums, that's why recently I'm resurrecting threads like this one)