Does The Bible Say The "end Of The World"?

[Dombovar]

We have heard so much about the end of the world because the Mayan calendar predicted it, but we are still here. Others say that the Bible says we are in the last days. So what do you think? Do you think the end of the world is coming?

[beso]

The last days were supposed to be within the lifetimes of The Apostles.

The Bible is a load of cr@P.

[rojash]

"because the Mayan calendar predicted it"

How many times do you have to be told that it didn't before it sinks in?

[sandyRoe]

Perhaps it has and we're still in the euphoric post rapture period?

[evedawn]

Yes I think that we are entering into the last days (biblically) although I don't think it'll be in our generation.

[jno]

I'm not feeling very euphoric myself, but then I am going to the dentist this afternoon, with the threat of root canal work, which I seldom find very rapturous.

[evedawn]

I don't give it much thought to be honest ... What will be will be. We can't control when it will be so why fret.

[maggiebee]

Rather sweeping statement Beso - many of us believe that the bible is the word of God.

[vascop]

So, word of god =?

[squarebear]

Yes of course the of the world is coming. It gets one day nearer each day. Hopefully, it won't be for billions of years yet though.

[andrew1707]

Load of cr@p vs word of god

oh I just can't decide!

[wolf63]

Load of cr@p vs word of god

oh I just can't decide

:-)

[naomi24]

Maggie, //many of us believe that the bible is the word of God.//

Firstly Maggie, unless you know the bible intimately, which I very much doubt, that too is a sweeping statement. However, that aside Goodlife also believes the Bible to be the word of God, but he doesn't believe as you do. I wonder which of you has it wrong? Could it be both?

[goodlife]

Of all the things we can know about time, is how it moves. It moves only in one direction, forward.

One of great importance to true Christians is that the Bible is the only record that accurately lists all the periods of time back to the creation of man, and even beyond. No other document does this. That is why true Christians can have such confidence in all matters of Bible prophecy that contain time and features.God is the Great Timekeeper. He has a set time for every purpose. When he promises a new world we can rejoice in the fact that for a certainty, exactly on time, such prophecies will be fulfilled. Thus true worshipers today do not have the anxiety of worldlings, for they know that their God, Jehovah, is guiding them in paths of righteousness, and that he tells them in advance what to expect and when to expect it. As Matt 24:13-14 says But he that has endured to the end is the one that will be saved. 14 And this good news of the kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations; and then the end will come.

[naomi24]

//Of all the things we can know about time, is how it moves. It moves only in one direction, forward.//

Or in the case of religion, it remains static and stuck in the Dark Ages.

//the Bible is the only record that accurately lists all the periods of time back to the creation of man, and even beyond. //

Really? Care to elaborate?

[sandyRoe]

In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God.
We can't go back any further than that.

[LazyGun]

The JWs have been predicting end times for decades now, and those prophecies have signally failed to manifest every time.

http://www.jwfacts.com/watchtower/1800s.php

Then we had that other preacher -Harold Camping, who predicted the end of the world starting May 21 2011 and finally ending in October 21 2011, based upon the book of revelations. More intemperate, and wrong, interpretation by a preacher convinced of the truth of the holy book and their own power of interpretation..

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/religion/2011-03-23-prophet_22_ST_N.htm

As for the bible being the word of god- this does not hold up either. The bible is a composite, with much editing and redrafting. Myths and legends for the credulous, no more, no less.

[jomifl]

It will be the end of the world when I die. I know this to be true because it has been the end of the world for every other being when it has died.

[goodlife]

Are you ready, In view of this, what do the Scriptures mean by the end of the world? It will be helpful to consider how Bible translators of modern times have rendered this expression. Some examples are: “the end of the age” (Today’s English Version), “the close of the age” (Revised Standard Version), “the consummation of the age” (Wuest), “the conclusion of the age” (Rotherham), “the conclusion of the system of things” (New World Translation). What actually comes to an end is an “age” or “system of things” (Greek, aion, from which we get the English word “aeon”), not the literal earth and its inhabitants.
For decades Russell had been proclaiming that the Gentile Times would end in 1914 – not the end of the world!
But as I have repeated said, it is no use reading sites that are not authentic. Any disgruntled person can set up a website and say all kinds of facts that may be completely wrong or set out to give a false impression.
If you want to know the true facts, go to the official website, www.jw.org. And see for yourself.

[boxtops]

No thank you, I don't need to go and read it, you believe what you believe, I don't. People have always predicted the end of the world, this is just another round of it.

[beegeebee]

Well you just have to go with goodlife because, that's alo what, as I understand it, the Koran also says! prophecy in numbers?