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I always found it odd that the church, the folks that are waiting for Christ's return, wouldn't know what this pretty significant sign is. The only sign that Jesus actually mentioned as given regarding His person was "the sign of Jonah". I've always thought that referred to His death and...

I had a small introduction to astrophysics while in university and was taught that stars "evolve" from one type to another as the concentration of elemental nuclei increase in a well described fusion of Hydrogen into Helium and then heavier more stable nuclei. I don't recollect how neutrons or...

You don't have to apologize to me for believing what the scripture says. I may be mistaken about John's experience "in the spirit", assuming that what he saw was a vision, but if not a vision what was he seeing? While it's possible for God to show people glimpses of time, what would someone from...

The evidence for plate tectonics and continental drift is pretty strong, but if Pangea existed, there's no reason why a large cataclysmic shift couldn't have accomplished its breakup, and the world is full of geological anomalies pointing to cataclysmic changes, none of which can be absolutely...

The entire book is a vision with the exception of the introduction and visions are like dreams, filled with symbolism. That's why interpretation is particularly difficult. As an example, consider Peter's rooftop vision of a sheet opening up filled with all sorts of "unclean" foods and the...

Funny, I thought the book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ was about the Revelation of God in the person of His Son, Jesus Christ. I wonder how I ever came up with that idea?

I don't know when the Orthodox vacationers go home, but I'll be listening for the shofars.:cool:

Possibly. There's evidence that the length of a year changed and possibly during "historic" times, and there is the Nemesis hypothesis, which isn't exactly unreasonable, but unprovable unless we find a massive dark body in a large eccentric orbit around the sun.

Mathematically, time is a 4th spatial dimension and its "length" varies with velocity according to Albert Einstein's equations describing special relativity. That being said, the passage of time remains a matter of perception, a function of sensory receptors and the brain. We have 2 passages in...

The feast of Booths or Tabernacles (the feast of in gathering) follows the Jewish calendar and consequently falls at different dates in different years. This year it begins September 20th, I recall it started on October 2nd at sundown in 2017. The feast of Tabernacles is particularly...

I'm inclined to believe that most of the division in the church comes from individuals interpreting phrases like "contend for the faith" as biblical instruction to contend with other people rather than to contend with their own fallen nature and the hosts of spiritual wickedness in the heavenly...

Have you actually read the bible? By the way, God doesn't invent fantasy doctrines that create disparities between saints. That job belongs to idiots with reading comprehension issues.

There is no rapture in scripture. The gathering together of the saints occurs at the 1st resurrection. That's what scripture actually says. That's why the living saints do not precede the dead ones at the first resurrection and why the first resurrection doesn't happen until the defeat of the...

Well, since the first resurrection is supposed to occur at the defeat of the antichrist, then what you're talking about is usually referred to as mid tribulation. Most Christians consider the persecutions under the antichrist and the natural catastrophes that occur during his reign as part of...

Sorry, this is just heresy.

Thanks for another response. Your answer wasn't to the question I asked about, but I understand self justification as well. That's something we all tend to do. I just wanted to know your opinion on the concept of blasphemy. No worries, it's all covered by the blood of Jesus at the cross.

Thanks for clarity, and have a nice life.

True enough, but while there are explicit passages about the 1st and 2nd resurrection, there is really only one verse in scripture that makes a promise to keep any Christians from "the hour of trial" to come. Since you have kept my command to endure patiently, I will also keep you from the hour...

Just because you say something over and over again, that doesn't qualify it as truth. All it does is make you someone who ignores Christianity boards forum rules, though I understand the idea of pushing your opinion on other people. That's how Joseph Goebbels convinced a predominantly "Christian...

Ok, if you're not comfortable with answering, just don't. I remember forming an opinion about the meaning of blaspheme, blasphemy, and blasphemous from looking through the Strong's definitions and it's a bit removed from Webster's. The worldly view expressed by common dictionaries is about...