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Naomi//You're afraid of death //
No. Why should I be? Death is only a deep sleep like state - going to bed to sleep and not waking up. What is to be feared in that?
//you're not making provision for your loved ones//
My loved ones are well taken care of financially, thank you.
PP//yeah but we only know afterwards wouldnt we//
Only those that survive. Those that don't won't know anything.
Beso@ With regards to the ark we are going a little off topic. But Genesis 6 v 16 reads "Make a roof for it, leaving below the roof an opening one cubit high all around. Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks."
Okay, so the original cubit length is uncertain, but it was most likely about 19.8–20.6 in. But this was to go all around the ark below the roof.
Also, the ark was not make to propell itself through the waters. The ark’s length was six times its width and ten times its height. Many modern ships have similar proportions, although for them the length-to-breadth ratio is chosen with regard to the power required to move them through the water. These proportions contributed to its stability therefore it was unlikely to capsize.
Birdie@ The End of the World! I am not talking about the End of the World. It is these so-called prophets that do that. I speak of the end of the system as we know it on the earth today.That is what the Bible refers to.
Jesus was speaking of the End of the System, not the end of the world. That is the political, religious and commercial system.
The wickedness and the violence, the poverty, the famine, homelessness and unemployment.
The Bible tells us that when God created the earth, he did not create it for nothing, but he created it to be inhabited. That it was to stand forever.
Psalm 104 v 5 -He set the earth on its foundations, so that it should never be moved.
Ecclesiastes 1 v 4 - A generation goes and a generation comes, But the earth remains forever.
Isaiah 45 v 18 - Former of the earth and the Maker of it, He the One who firmly established it, who did not create it simply for nothing, who formed it even to be inhabited.
To answer your question//Religion wishes to visit Armageddon on the entire plant. Ideologically, what's the difference between someone who longs for the 'final judgement' and a suicide bomber? I can't see any. Maybe you can explain it to me. //
When God brings Armageddon it is selective. Only the wicked will be removed. On the other hand a suicide bomber does not care who is killed. His/her main purpose is to kill as many people as it can regardless of whether they are innocent or not.
For those who await the final judgement, these ones are looking forward to a new world system, free from corruption, violence, disease and all the distressing conditions on the earth today.