The end is nigh

[Kos]

So this is the year that The Bible Code predicts as Armageddon when the World will be destroyed.

Has anyone started spending up to their credit limits yet?

How do you think the End will come? Can't see an atomic bomb wiping out the World- it could affect some areas, but not the whole World, surely?

[mika16]

Not this year my friend ,It will start slowly by the end of next year.the events will lead to one another in the next 6 years,By 2012 either everything is wiped out or 1/6th will remain ,the world as we see it will end between 2014 and 2035.War,Famine and Plague go together.

I am not a nut case.or a Jesus- freak.In fact I am not even Christian.Watch carefully the Neo-cons and their policies it will give a clue.

[Kos]

Well somethings changed since last Mika16, cos the Bible Code definitely predicted the end of the World in 2006.

Are bookies offering odds on this? If so, how will you collect your winings? :-)

[Loosehead]

Well I don't subscribe to any religious prophecies but I do think the world will end as we know it through religion. Eventually the middle east fanatics will get nuclear weapons and they'll not hesitate to use them on the "great satan". That'll kick it all off bye bye world as we know it. Wouldn't like to put any time scale on it though.

[Lonnie]

The Bible Code predicts 2006, and it was wtitten before Jesus was born, but was Jesus really born 2006 years ago, not according to the Ethiopian and other calenders, To get the date right, you have to accurately know when Jesus was born.

Any takers?.

[Kos]

So he wasn't born on 25/12/0000 then ???

[jno]

the Middle East fanatics have nuclear weapons already, Loosehead, from Israel to India and beyond. It's just the Iranians who wonder why they should be the only big country in the region, apart from the Saudis and (unless you believe the CIA) Iraq, without any. I can see why they feel a little vulnerable.

[jno]

PS Kos, I think Jesus was born in 1 AD (anno domini, 'the year of the Lord'). But presumably up till mid-December everyone was still thinking it was 1 BC.

[Loosehead]

Well I'm suprised you think India, Pakistan and Isreal are fanatics jno, I was not refering to a particular country more the sort of mind set that thinks murdering people in attacks like New York, London and Madrid is the way forward for them.

[CLOWN TICKLE]

Before going to a Bible Study I was terrified of the ending of the world and the beginning of the new, apparently there is only 1 person knows the date, if you try to live a decent life you should not fear and I am not trying to preach. It doesnt actually say the WORLD will be destroyed only that a new kingdom will be created with no suffering pain or death, try to enjoy everyday and try and think how whenever it happens 24 hour news channels will be dealing with it.

[WaldoMcFroog]

We will all read so many psuedo-scientific books of halfwitted old guff like The Bible Code that our brains will devolve to the point where we can no longer feed ourselves. This will happen by next Thursday, just before tea.

[whiffey]

If you see it, buy and read The Third World War by Sir John Hackett. It fictionalises a tactical nuclear exchange in Europe. 2 atomic warheads are exploded over England - one over Croydon (I don't blame them) and one over Birmingham I think. The global effects are eventually felt as far afield as Central Australia. A fascinating book, let's hope it doesn't come to pass.

[jno]

Loosehead, Abdul Qadir, who developed Pakistan's nuclear programme, sold off nuclear secrets to countries like Libya and North Korea. I'm not sure if that was out of ideology or greed. The point is that it doesn't require the whole country to be fanatical - one person with his finger near the trigger will do. There are plenty of fanatical Pakistanis, Israelis and Indians - as well as North Koreans, Chinese and all the rest. India and Pakistan, at official level, are currently trying to be friendly; long may it last, but the official level isn't the only one that matters.

[smudge]

Thanks for the title Kos - I'm just off for another check up!

[aquadee]

Well I don't know much about what the bible code predicts or anything like that - but apparantly the Bahamas are going to be underwater very soon as a result of the global warming and temperature changes, as the sea level only needs to rise a little bit more. I would imagine that if about 13 islands disappear underwater that will have a knock on effect for the rest of the world - so chances are our grandchildren may witness the end of this planet if changes aren't made soon.

[spudqueen]

According to the Mayan calender the world ends on 23rd December 2012, so, no, I'm not up to my credit limit yet!

[Octavius]

The whole of the New Testament is directed towards the end of times. The technical language for the end time in theology is eschatology - the study of the eschaton, the last things. The New Testament is thoroughly eschatological, thoroughly focused on the end of history. Paul, the earliest Christian writer, believed that the end of the world was imminent.

So many predictions have come and gone, all of them wrong.

And there wasn't a year 0.

[Clanad]

If, by inference you are suggesting, Octavius, that the New Covenant writings contain prophecies that have not held true, you certainly must know there exists no New Testament prophecies other than those relevant to the return of Ha Messiach. As I'm sure you also know, Yeshua has fullfilled over 100 specific Old Testament prophecies. The remaining ones are yet to be completed. Although you may be correct in your assertion that Paul, nee Saul of Tarsus was the earliest writer, it's argued equally as well that Mark may have been the first written record of a well established and attested oral transmission of the evidence. Regardless, there exists much evidence the first writings appeared within 15 to 20 years of the central events.
Both the Old Covenant and New agree on two central premises concerning end times... firstly, no one knows that time and secondly the seminal event without which fullfillment of all end times prophecy cannot occur is the rebuilding of the Temple in Jerusalem...

[gerkin]

<DIV>a huge gravity field would just appear in our solar system and swallow all the plants and the sun

[gerkin]

planets not plants - that would have been a bit silly

[Postdog]

Gerkin, no sillier than the rest of this bovine excretia...