I've figured it out. the world will end within the next one hundred years. Dont know exactly what time, but when I cease to exist, so will all of you, everyone, and everything, because there will be no more point to existence. there you have it.
I always thought the same thing, and yes living with God is one of our rewards but, but in 2 Corinthians 5:10 it says Also in 2 Timothy 4:7-8 it says Those 2 verses along with many others have led me to believe that we also recieve rewards in heaven based on our works on earth.
2 Corinthians 5:10 I think and my understanding is that the "receive" in here is when we stand before Christ and "receive" our judgement. not so much as something given to us but something will be told to us. 2 Timothy 4:7-8 Could possible be an explantion as to what we recieve, but my opinion is that is the receiving of our judgement and being allowed live with Christ.
I've seen those sites and I enjoy reading them but they aren't going to change my beliefs just like probably anything a christian says isn't going to change your beliefs.
No man knows when the end of times shall come. It could be next week, next year, next century.. 1 Thessalonians 5 1But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. 2For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. 3For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. 4But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. 5Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
I'd like to state for the record that I do believe we are living in the "End Times" but the duration of that is unknowable. Date or year picking, I mean. You have to be pretty ignorant of the Bible to not at least pick up on the similarities of the times we live in and the descriptions and prophecies concerning the Second Coming in the Bible. I understand if you don't believe in the Bible in the first place then it's all nonsense anyway but if you do believe in the Bible then events are definitely accelerating in that direction. Personally, I find the St. Malachy prophecy concerning the number of Popes to be pretty well on the mark and we've got Benedict and one more and it's all she wrote..... Besides the Red Sox won the World Series last year......yet another sign, eh? :yelwink2:
The world as we know it will end about 5 billion years from now. At that point our sun will begin to become a red giant and expand its outer surface, past the earth's orbit, which will be pretty much the end of things here. It is doubtful that human beings will have survived the 10 or 12 mass extinctions that will have happened in that time span, caused by comet strikes and supervolcanoes. If we manage it, we will have evolved into creatures far advanced from contemporary humans. Of course, the End of Plaqumines Parish will happen in about 160 years when it will become another shallow part of the continental shelf
Actually, not to survive these 10 or 12 mass extinctions would be shocking. We are far advanced now to not only predict such things, but to plan, prepare, even maybe even devise mitigations or possibly ways to prevent the catastrophe. And as time passes we only get more advanced, near exponentially. After billions of years we will be all over the galaxy, maybe the universe, with ways to maybe even stop the inevitable big b job at the end of it all. Let's face it, we will be near-to-gods,,,hell, i feel like one now.:grin: Your comment gives man very little credit, where he appears to be inconsequential monkies--are you on the outside looking in? I give man all the credit in the world, with all confidence. We are at the pinnacle, redefining the pinnacle everyday. Hooray for man!
i agree with red. i figure humanity would go down pretty easy from a mass extinction. however, i sort of also agree with frogleg, except i dont think "we" could survive. i think the robots and intelligence we create will evolve way beyond us and they might survive. we are limited by our slow life spans and evolution. robots and computers will advance at a much higher rate. the robots will think of us as their ancestors, because we made the early ones, but they will exist on such a higher level what we will be stupid children from their perspective. they will be more resistant to extintion than us fleshbags.
