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Freeper Research Project: Survey of Freeper views of “How it all Ends”
Various | March 7, 2006 | Alamo-Girl

Posted on 03/06/2006 11:29:39 PM PST by Alamo-Girl

The last Freeper Research Project on Freeper personality types is currently being compiled and will be posted soon.

Meanwhile, we are embarking on a new survey to determine what Freepers believe is the end of all that there is.:

Eschatology is the study of the end of history according to Christian theology.

Teleology is the study of final causes, the end results.

Freepers’ answers will no doubt be strongly related to personal religious beliefs - but this is not a religion thread!

If you wish to argue for or against any particular belief system please take it up somewhere on the Religion Forum.

Here we are simply doing a survey of Freeper views on the subject.

Please consider the following list of beliefs and end time scenarios and then post which of them would apply to you, or if you believe something else - then please give a short description of what you believe.

If you spot an error in my definitions, please let me know.

Thank you so much for your participation in this survey!!!

Christianity (paraphrased from this webpage)

Historical Premillennialism: The Antichrist appears on earth before the seven year Tribulation begins. Rapture follows tribulation. Christ and his Church return to earth to rule for a Millennium. The forces of evil are conquered. The faithful live during the thousand years in Jerusalem, while occupying spiritual bodies. After the millennium, all people are judged and the faithful spend eternity on a new earth (not in heaven).

Dispensational Premillennialism: (a.k.a. Dispensationalism) The Tribulation precedes the second coming of Christ, and the subsequent establishment of the millennial kingdom -- a thousand-year golden age on Earth under the authority of Christ. Afterwards, in a brief, final battle, Satan is permanently conquered. The Final Judgment follows the millennium.

Pre-Tribulation Rapture: (or "pre-trib") The Rapture happens just before the Tribulation, so that believers will not have to experience any of its disruption and pain.

Post-tribulation Rapture: (or "post-trib") The faithful experience the full horrors of the entire Tribulation and are raptured only at the end of the 7 years.

Mid-Tribulation Rapture: (or "mid-trib") The Rapture happens 42 months into the Tribulation. Up to that time, the Antichrist brings peace to the world. After 42 months, events take a sudden turn for the worse.

Pre-wrath Rapture: That the church must experience most of the Tribulation, and then be raptured towards the end of the Tribulation period.

Partial Rapture: The faithful born-again believers are raptured just before the Tribulation. Newly born again believers are raptured during or at the end of the Tribulation.

Amillennialism: (Also known as Nonmillennialism). The Kingdom of God is present in the world today through the presence of the heavenly reign of Christ, the Bible, the Holy Spirit and Christianity. Both good and evil will continue in the world until the current Church Age ends suddenly as Christ returns to the sky above the earth. The Rapture follows. The Redeemed are transported to heaven where they will adopt spiritual bodies. The majority of humanity will be sent to Hell at this time for eternal punishment. The world will be abandoned. History is no more.

Amillennialism, Roman Catholic: These anticipate Jesus coming to Earth and gathering the Church together. But they generally do not use the term "rapture."

Postmillennialism: (Also known as "Christian Reconstruction", "Kingdom Now Theology" and "Dominion Theology.") These believe “that the kingdom of God is now being extended in the world through the preaching of the gospel and the saving work of the Holy Spirit, that the world eventually is to be Christianized, and that the return of Christ will occur at the close of a long period of righteousness and peace, commonly called the millennium.”

Preterism is a belief that the events prophesized in the New Testament have already happened. The great war of Armageddon in the book of Revelation occurred in the late 60's and early 70's CE when the temple in Jerusalem was destroyed, many Jews were killed and the rest were driven from Palestine. When Jesus talked about the end of the world, he did not mean that the physical world would be no more.

No Millennialism: These interpret the contents of the books of Daniel and Revelation as having no prophetic information for our future.

Judaism - The scattered Jewish exiles will be gathered to the geographic Israel, her enemies will be defeated, the third temple built, sacrifices resumed, the dead resurrected. The Jewish Messiah will become the King of Israel and divide Israel into its original tribes and defend it in a great war. God will intervene and banish all evil. After the 6,000th year of the Jewish calendar the seventh millennium will be holy, peaceful, tranquil. (Olam Haba) and all people will know God.

Islam - On a day of reckoning, God will resurrect and judge the dead, send the righteous to heaven and the evil to hell. This will be preceded by a Muhammed-like holy warrior, the Mahdi (twelfth imam) – who defends Islam from the antiChrist, beasts, etc.

Buddhism - Buddha’s teachings will disappear and all will fall into ruin to be replaced by Maitreya and his teachings.

Hinduism All will fall into ruin followed by the appearance of an avatar (Kalki Avatar)

Atheism:

Big Crunch The universe expands by strictly naturalistic means and then collapses.

Cyclic The universe expands by strictly naturalistic means, collapses, and then expands again etc.

Endless Expansion The universe never quits expanding but reaches maximum entropy killing everything anyway



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KEYWORDS: endtimes; freeperpeep; frresearch
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To: Alamo-Girl
LOLOL! Thanks for the chuckle!

Thank you for the reply. I think this is the first time I have received a reply from you.

I have seen all the fabulous information that you have collected over the years, and consider you a national treasure.

It's nice to hear from a national treasure.

Now, if only George Bush would invite me down to the ranch for a few cheeseburgers on the grill, life would be nearly complete.

;-)

161 posted on 03/08/2006 3:22:40 AM PST by beyond the sea (Cheney’s "meaningful consequences"...........even more painful for Iran than the evils of dodgeball.)
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To: Alamo-Girl
"How it all Ends"

Paul says ICorinthians 10:11 Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: (examples) and they are written for our admonition, (warning) upon whom the ends of the world (age) are come.

So I am guessing the question "How it all Ends" is directed to the end of this flesh age. According to Paul we already have the script told to us by the prophets starting in Genesis, as Moses was surely a prophet.

Christ said Matthew 24:21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.

22. And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.

So according to Christ, the tribulation foretold by Daniel and others assigned a 7 year time frame has been shortened.

You said to keep it short so I will stop here.
162 posted on 03/08/2006 4:09:05 AM PST by Just mythoughts
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To: connectthedots
Actually, our understanding of God's goals for "life, the universe, and everything" makes a considerable difference. If we expect God to give the other team a few uncontested turns at bat, then we will build nothing of enduring value here on earth. We might even send our kids to antichrist's schools, to better prepare them for life in antichrist's world! Chiliaism always is a sympthom of pathology in the church.
163 posted on 03/08/2006 6:07:01 AM PST by TomSmedley (Calvinist, optimist, home schooling dad, exuberant husband, technical writer)
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To: Alamo-Girl

pre-wrath dispensationalism


164 posted on 03/08/2006 6:16:49 AM PST by restornu (examining these parts/patterens that they could then be put back together to make wholes-Gestalt)
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To: Alamo-Girl

I will be writing (soon) a vanity describing in more detail, among other things, Vedic time cycles including descriptions of the Kali Age/Yuga. I have a short ping list of people who want to be pinged when I post it, let me know if you want the alert.

(and anyone else interested)


165 posted on 03/08/2006 7:37:28 AM PST by little jeremiah (Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. CS.Lewis)
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To: agere_contra

Thank you for sharing!


166 posted on 03/08/2006 8:42:42 AM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: who knows what evil?

Thank you for sharing!


167 posted on 03/08/2006 8:43:18 AM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: hosepipe

Thank you so much for sharing your insights!


168 posted on 03/08/2006 8:47:49 AM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: bmwcyle

LOLOL! Thanks for the chuckle!


169 posted on 03/08/2006 8:48:39 AM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: Alamo-Girl

I believe that no matter what we say, argue, believe or do, God will do what he wants to do, in his way, and in his time.

Our job is to be watchful servants, always ready for his coming.

Arguing instead of acting is one of the games the dark one plays to keep us from doing what we should do, I suspect.

IMHO.


170 posted on 03/08/2006 8:48:47 AM PST by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: swmobuffalo

Thank you for sharing!


171 posted on 03/08/2006 8:49:07 AM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: The Toll

LOLOL! Thanks for the chuckle.


172 posted on 03/08/2006 8:50:21 AM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: Alamo-Girl
This poll is biased...
It doesn't include a choice for riding on a spaceship that's hiding behind the comet Hale-Bopp.

;^)

173 posted on 03/08/2006 8:54:39 AM PST by Willie Green (Go Pat Go!!!)
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To: HairOfTheDog

24? LOLOL!


174 posted on 03/08/2006 8:54:54 AM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: PatrickHenry; xzins

But there is no reason a respondent cannot select more than one answer. xzins for instance, selected three!


175 posted on 03/08/2006 8:58:35 AM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: JockoManning

Thank you for sharing!


176 posted on 03/08/2006 9:00:29 AM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: WildHorseCrash

Thank you for sharing!


177 posted on 03/08/2006 9:00:55 AM PST by Alamo-Girl
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Tralfamadorian test pilot ?


178 posted on 03/08/2006 9:20:32 AM PST by Cyber Ninja (His legacy is a stain on the dress.)
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To: Alamo-Girl

I'm not trying to be difficult but many of endings that you gave as an example are not endings. Not even endings of history as people in whatever form will continue to exist and make more history. If we are talking about the end of the world...well...In a couple of billion years our sun will begin to expand wiping any life from this planet.

Suffice it to say that I don't believe in an "end" of the universe, or of time.


179 posted on 03/08/2006 9:21:49 AM PST by Durus ("Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." JFK)
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To: Seven_0

Thank you, Seven_0!


180 posted on 03/08/2006 9:38:45 AM PST by Alamo-Girl
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