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The Last Days
2 Tim 3: 1-5, 12 & 13
1 Remember that there will be difficult times in the last days. 2 People will be selfish, greedy, boastful, and conceited; they will be insulting, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, and irreligious; 3 they will be unkind, merciless, slanderers, violent, and fierce; they will hate the good; 4 they will be treacherous, reckless, and swollen with pride; they will love pleasure rather than God; 5 they will hold to the outward form of our religion, but reject its real power. Keep away from such people.
12 Everyone who wants to live a godly life in union with Christ Jesus will be persecuted; 13 and evil persons and impostors will keep on "going from bad to worse", deceiving others and being deceived themselves.
This topic of the "time of the end" has been discussed before many times. Just wondering if those who say, "no nothing has changed in our day from the past", still feel the same with all the things happening in the world now?
Sorry I missed adding the title......
08 Jan 15
Originally posted by galveston75I think in many key ways the world is a better place now than it was in 1960, 1910, 1860, 1810 and so on. This has been discussed before many times. If you can cite just one contributor here who has said "no nothing has changed in our day from the past" then maybe we can tackle him or her on the silliness of their assertion.
Just wondering if those who say, "no nothing has changed in our day from the past", still feel the same with all the things happening in the world now?
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Originally quoted by galveston75Remember that there will be difficult times in the last days. 2 People will be selfish, greedy, boastful, and conceited; they will be insulting, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, and irreligious; 3 they will be unkind, merciless, slanderers, violent, and fierce; they will hate the good; 4 they will be treacherous, reckless, and swollen with pride; they will love pleasure rather than God; 5 they will hold to the outward form of our religion, but reject its real power. Keep away from such people.
I assume you've got YouTube clips of people doing all the above things?
08 Jan 15
Originally posted by galveston75Greed, violence, selfishness, etc., has always existed. By the bible's logic, the end times could've been a thousand years ago.
The Last Days
2 Tim 3: 1-5, 12 & 13
1 Remember that there will be difficult times in the last days. 2 People will be selfish, greedy, boastful, and conceited; they will be insulting, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, and irreligious; 3 they will be unkind, merciless, slanderers, violent, and fierce; they will hate the good; 4 they will be ...[text shortened]... e same with all the things happening in the world now?
Sorry I missed adding the title......
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Originally posted by FMFI don't have time right now this evening. Sorry. But yes some things make life better even though many of them are doing the earth harm. But piece of mind and just piece in general are fading fast...
I think in many key ways the world is a better place now than it was in 1960, 1910, 1860, 1810 and so on. This has been discussed before many times. If you can cite just one contributor here who has said "no nothing has changed in our day from the past" then maybe we can tackle him or her on the silliness of their assertion.
There's one posting now.....
08 Jan 15
Originally posted by galveston75Things are mostly getting better right across the board where I live, the fifth biggest country in this real world we both live in. Although there are still plenty of people not fully benefitting from all aspects of progress, the proportion that isn't is decreasing.
I don't have time right now this evening. Sorry. But yes some things make life better even though many of them are doing the earth harm. But piece of mind and just piece in general are fading fast...
08 Jan 15
Originally posted by FMFDo you feel safer now then 40 or 30 or 20 years ago?
Things are mostly getting better right across the board where I live, the fifth biggest country in this real world we both live in. Although there are still plenty of people not fully benefitting from all aspects of progress, the proportion that isn't is decreasing.
08 Jan 15
Originally posted by galveston7540 years ago I was too young for an answer to be valid in this discussion. 30 years ago I had some issues with "feeling safe" on account of the part of London I was living in at the time. 20 years ago I felt pretty safe ~ even though I had taken on a big challenge and was dealing with many unknowns and new things. And I feel even safer nowadays - maybe the safest I've ever been.
Do you feel safer now then 40 or 30 or 20 years ago?
08 Jan 15
Originally posted by FMFHummm, do you watch the news or read the paper?
40 years ago I was too young for an answer to be valid in this discussion. 30 years ago I had some issues with "feeling safe" on account of the part of London I was living in at the time. 20 years ago I felt pretty safe ~ even though I had taken on a big challenge and was dealing with many unknowns and new things. And I feel even safer nowadays - maybe the safest I've ever been.
Originally posted by galveston75Yes I do. And indeed I read more widely than that too. That's why my optimism and positivity about the world, and about how it continues to become a better place for an increasingly large proportion of humanity to live, has some basis.
Hummm, do you watch the news or read the paper?