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Posted on 08/17/2015 10:26:43 AM PDT by Perseverando
Because of my unshakable belief in the Bible and its uncanny track record of predictions of future events, I have been accused of being an apocalyptic doomsdayer.
It’s not accurate, because I see a glorious future for planet Earth – the restoration of all things including complete justice and real world peace.
What I found remarkable today is that secular people, atheists, agnostics and materialists seem to be the real doomsdayers in our world.
It was just about a year ago that Noam Chomsky, all of the above plus a radical left-wing idealist, wrote that the world was facing imminent and likely irreversible doom in an article titled “The End of History.”
“It is not pleasant to contemplate the thoughts that must be passing through the mind of the Owl of Minerva as the dusk falls and she undertakes the task of interpreting the era of human civilization, which may now be approaching its inglorious end,” he began.
What was keeping Chomsky awake at night was and is the inevitability of catastrophic climate change – in particular a draft report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which he labeled “the generally conservative monitor of what is happening to the physical world.”
“The report concludes that increasing greenhouse gas emissions risk ‘severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts for people and ecosystems’ over the coming decades,” he wrote. “The world is nearing the temperature when loss of the vast ice sheet over Greenland will be unstoppable. Along with melting Antarctic ice, that could raise sea levels to inundate major cities as well as coastal plains.”
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Such doomsaying has been the norm for, well, pretty much all of human history. The End has always been near. The track record for very sensible predictions as been ... poor. I’ve been following such “within the year” predictions of social, economic, religious, or other existential TEOTWAWKI* events for the last 30+ years - always imminent, never quite happening. Don’t get me wrong, S does HTF pretty hard from time to time, and one need be ready (having just re-watched _Enemey_at_the_Gates_, and following the Bejing shipyard explosion last week, I’m reminded of how suddenly & totally it can happen). I support the notion of preparedness as a way of life, I just don’t put extra stock in the “THIS time will be different and definitive” predictions.
Maybe the real sign of the coming end of the world will be that people will stop predicting the end of the world?
If it gets too quiet... look out!
* - TEOTWAKI = The End Of The World As We Know It, a term very popular for quite some time, but seems to have fallen out of popularity of late.
I feel fine.
We ALL gonna die! Eeeek! We ALL gonna die!
Except it’s true. - Stop. Pray. Ask for God’s
enlightenment & His help. - I’m 69; time is a commodity
I don’t have the luxury of wasting. Have got to get
to the bottom of TRUTH. Soon. The only way I see to do
that is to ask the CREATOR of all this vast UNIVERSE. Only He can tell me.
“Such doomsaying has been the norm for, well, pretty much all of human history.”
And so it should be. The Fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom. Today, only 6 nations do not permit abortion. God hates nationalized child sacrifice and the death of the innocent. It is forgivable on the personal level if truly repented, but not nationally.
In the Old Testament King Manasseh burned his child alive. His nation was invaded and he was taken captive. While in prison he repented.
“However, the LORD did not turn from the fierceness of His great wrath with which His anger burned against Judah, because of all the provocations with which Manasseh had provoked Him. And the LORD said, “I will remove Judah also from My sight, as I have removed Israel. And I will cast off Jerusalem, this city which I have chosen, and the temple (house) of which I said, ‘My name shall be there.’”
“Surely at the command (mouth) of the LORD it came upon Judah, to remove them from His sight because of the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he had done, and also for the innocent blood which he shed, for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; AND THE LORD WOULD NOT FORGIVE.” (All caps mine) 2 Kings 23: 26 & 27 and 24: 3 & 4
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