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.:
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!
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.
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:
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
Don't bring politics into this or we'll all tell you to go to Helliburton...
Will add your name to the little pinglist. Should be in the next few days, thanks.
2) When the serpent biting its tail at the center of the earth bursts out.
Seriously - I believe that the biblical prophecies already took place when Jerusalem was sacked by the Romans in 63 AD. I think the universe and human life will go on and on until we have filled the universe. (assuming we don't destroy ourselves first). Other than that - Jesus said, 'No man knows the day or the hour."
Actually, I like to be surprised, and can virtually guarantee that, whatever eschatological system one subscribes to, one will be surprised. These attempts to out-clever Omniscience and break into His secret game plan . . . well, let's be diplomatic and say that they are amusing.
LOLOL! Thanks for the chuckle!
Indeed. Maranatha, Lord Jesus!
LOLOL! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you for sharing, L,TOWM!
Thank you for sharing!
LOLOL! Thanks for the chuckle.
Thank you for sharing, Tokra!
Thank you for sharing!
Tralfamadore is the home planet of aliens in novels
by the Kurt Vonnegut.
The planet's name is an anagram of "or fatal dream,"
a recurring concept in Vonnegut's novels.
In Slaughterhouse-Five, they are beings who exist in
all times simultaneously, and had knowledge of future
events, including the destruction of the universe at
the hands of a Tralfamadorian test pilot (oops).
They kidnap Billy Pilgrim, the hero of the novel,
and placed him in a zoo on Tralfamadore with
Montana Wildhack, a porn actress.
Welcome back, long time, no see.
Count me Pre-trib, pre-mil, Dispensational...
Just waiting that Great DISPE TD
DYNAMIN Power
ISCHYN Strength
SOPHIAN Wisdom
PLOYTON Riches/Abundance
EULOGIAN Blessing
TIMEN Honor, Value, Praise
DOXAN Honor, Glory, Spendor, Praise
THANKS FOR YOUR KIND WORDS
And Praise God for Angel-Gal's encouragements and prayers and for JimRob's kindness and courage in allowing me back.
End times: the 4 last things: death, judgment, heaven, hell
Belief system: extra ecclesiam nulla sallus
Sorry for the late reply. I didn't read this article until now...
Anyway, I can confirm I'm a born again Christian, the definition defined by God's Word, the 66-book Bible, that "anyone who has accepted the Lord Jesus Christ, being fully God and man, literally died on the cross and resurrected/became alive bodily again on the third day, that He died on his behalf and the qualification of being a Christian is founded solely on this belief and not based on anything he does."
I believe that it is pre-trib premillennialism as the biblical point of view of how the future will unfold.
Also Quix, welcome back!
Thanks tons.
Am super blessed to be back.
Also very wary of posting articles! LOL.
Thanks for your great greetings and God's best to you and yours this spring.
LUB
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