Thread: The End of The World?

I'll tell you one thing that is in the bible that gives me pause... In 2 Peter 3:10

"But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up."

Now I know that biblical scholars think that someone other than Peter wrote this long after Peter died but one way or the other it was still written in antiquity. The first time I read that I immediately thought of atomic war. What could have put that vision into the mind of a man living in the first century ?

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

What could have put that vision into the mind of a man living in the first century ?

A couple hits of high powered blotter acid?

Some naughty language in this...

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[QUOTE=JimmyHAD;497634]I'll tell you one thing that is in the bible that gives me pause... In 2 Peter 3:10

"But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up."QUOTE]

See Jimmy to me that means a Comet or large Asteroid strike....
Which we have evidence has happened on Earth in the past, whether one of these wiped out the dinosaurs is still a matter of discussion... But I could see the cycle starting all over again without mankind on Earth from another large strike...

Makes you think, there's really a gap in the market for razors engraved with religious texts. You could even make some ironic...

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Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

I'll tell you one thing that is in the bible that gives me pause... In 2 Peter 3:10

"But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up."QUOTE]

See Jimmy to me that means a Comet or large Asteroid strike....
Which we have evidence has happened on Earth in the past, whether one of these wiped out the dinosaurs is still a matter of discussion... But I could see the cycle starting all over again without mankind on Earth from another large strike...

That certainly could be it Glen but what gets me is that the writer, whoever he was would have imagined the whole earth being burned up and replaced with,"a new heaven and a new earth." Another thing that I find interesting ... since the epistles were letters written to answer concerns of the contemporary Christians we can get a sense of what those concerns were. One of the points that the writer of Second Peter addresses is the doubts that people were beginning to have because the predicted apocalypse had yet to happen. Doubt isn't a new phenomenon.

³Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
⁴And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
⁵For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
⁶Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
⁷But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
⁸But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
⁹The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.