taforever: How Christians can think they have an idea when the end will come is opposed to Scripture since Jesus said no one knows when the end will come except the Father.
HELLO?
I get so weary of this hollow argument. JESUS ALSO SAID SEVERAL THINGS ABOUT WATCHING FOR CERTAIN SIGNS SO THAT WE WOULD *KNOW* WHEN THE TIME WAS APPROACHING, AT HAND. He chided and rebuked those who could tell th weather but not the SIGNS OF THE TIMES such as related to HIS SECOND COMING! EVIDENTLY *HE* EXPECTED US TO KNOW THE SEASON, ANYWAY!
Of course, folks can ignore Christ's firm warning and exhortation to WATCH, WAIT, BE AWARE, READY, KNOWLEDGABLE ABOUT THE TIME BEING AT HAND etc. But I don't encourage it if you really want to demonstrate your love for HIM by following HIS commandments and exhortations.
I think it's a cop-out to use the Scripture about not knowing the DAY OR HOUR to avoid following Christ's exhortations about being aware and knowing the season of His 2nd Coming. Sheesh.
Maybe it's convenient and a good rationalization for laziness. But it's not being obedient out of Love to our Lord and what He exhorted in such matters.
Not sure why but that increasingly annoys me. Maybe it strikes me as willful blindness or some such.
Certainly doesn't strike me as Biblical.
EVIDENTLY *HE* EXPECTED US TO KNOW THE SEASON, ANYWAY!
Not to sound sarcastic, but what season is He coming?
JESUS ALSO SAID SEVERAL THINGS ABOUT WATCHING FOR CERTAIN SIGNS SO THAT WE WOULD *KNOW* WHEN THE TIME WAS APPROACHING, AT HAND.
Those signs have been happening since He rose into heaven. He said that no one except the Father knows the time of the end.
So what do you have against those who think that the end could "come as a thief in the night"?