2timothy316 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 22, 2021 5:29 pm
Your opinion is noted.
I’m happy to trade opinions while you’re noting them. For instance:
We have been in the last days of the world as we know it since the turn of the century.
See my earlier response in Post 327:
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Perhaps we could find agreement on which parts of my post were opinion though?
Nice analogy.
Yep. Opinion.
I’m sure we could all come up with similar ones to support our own world view.
Perhaps not
everyone could come up with counter-analogies, I’ll grant you. A slight case of hyperbole aside, will you agree that such counter-analogies are relatively simple to construct?
The message “turn to God, or there will be trouble” has been re-stated countless times and in countless ways since Christianity began.
Perhaps rather crudely put, but still a fact. Others here have already highlighted the astonishing number of failed ‘end of the world’ prophecies.
Deuteronomy 28 might still hold sway over some people, but most now see it for what it is: baseless fearmongering.
For the first part, we could speculate on what percentage of Christians this applies to - bearing in mind that’s from a pool of only around 31% of the world’s population. Biblical literalists do exist, therefore ‘some’ is a true statement, even if a tad vague.
For the second part, yes, that’s an opinion. But on a personal level, it is a fact that I have never experienced anything like the curses and punishments that it described, despite not obeying God. On the contrary: much of my life resembles the good fortunes described in the first part of that chapter, describing the obedient servant of god.
What surety can we give other biblical warnings when this is stated so clearly, yet is so demonstrably wrong?