More End of the World

[naomi24]

Following on from commonsense's question about the Mayan prophecy of the end of the world in 2012, has anyone ever managed to work out when, according to the bible, Armageddon is due to take place, and if so, is there any correlation between the two dates?

[mibn2cweus]

Isaac Newton 2060

[luna-tic]

Hello Naomi,According to little bits and bobs I've read(the technical phrase for my lack of knowledge about the subject),The Bible is only supposed to mention Armageddon once but no dates are involved and the word itself is relating to a hill and a place.I think the dates of doom are very much like the supposed second coming given by certain followers of faith.They keep moving the posts(so to speak).The Mayans said 2012/2013 but I wonder what modern South American tribal people think? (if there's any left).
The Mayans believed in Quickening,an acceleration of cosmic and terrestrial events that would end in catastrophe and rebirth, not necessarily complete annihilation for the planet but humans and other life forms will definitely be part of that.

[naomi24]

Mib, thank you. That's interesting - and it's also interesting that Newton's date and the Mayan date aren't far apart.

Luna, Thanks for that. I've always thought that the Maya weren't predicting the end of the world, but rather the beginning of a new era.

[mibn2cweus]

In the unlikely event that Theland is standing in line awaiting the release of the new Harry Potter Book, "Deathly Hollows" . . .

End of the World

[naomi24]

I've no doubt he's just as anxious for its release as me, mib! <:o)

[commonsense]

Newton spent half his life searching for a bible code(old testament), he said it was more important than anything else he had ever done, he died still trying to make his breakthrough. Also the Mayans had a more accurate calender than we have today, so maybe the Newton predictions are closer than u think.

[commonsense]

Ur right to point out that it would not be the end of the world, I never meant that. What I saw was that this allignment will cause a shudder to the Earths axis, I was too quick to say the end of the world!!! I do that sometimes

[Teddio]

Hello Commonsense. Scenarios leading to the end of the world are usually one of two types: either a natural (or even preternatural) event or a supernatural event.
Mechanisms exist for the destruction of Earth but the time scales are very long.
Supernatural events are, by their very nature, mysterious and no expanation is possible. For an omnipotent and omniscient God, all things are possible.
As a child in 1966 I remember a mystic on television predicting the end of the world in 1967. Late in 1967 I asked my uncle why the world hadn't ended. He said to me that the world had ended "as we know it" because Christiaan Barnard had performed the world's first heart transplant !