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inho wrote: ↑August 2nd, 2019, 10:24 am The early Christians thought that the second coming would happen during their lifetime. That was nearly 2000 years ago, and the religion still thrives. Based on that, I don't think there is an expiration date for Christianity.

I remember learning about this in high school. We were studying Dante and during his lifetime everyone was convinced that the second coming would happen in 1300 or thereabouts. This was in the 1990s and it was very similar to all the current speculation about 2000.

Edit: 2000, not 200.

ajax wrote: ↑August 2nd, 2019, 4:18 pm The second coming is our own personal deaths.

I think their is some real truth to this. As we approach the end of our lives, I think their is a subconscious tendency to project our existential angst onto the world at large. The world is ending for us, so we convince ourselves that it's ending for everyone.

Michael Sherwin wrote: ↑August 2nd, 2019, 10:04 am What year is the year for each of you that if nothing ever happens then you will through in the towel and conclude Christianity is a myth? By what year do you think Christianity will completely disappear if Jesus never returns? Or is this a question you are not willing to entertain. I can understand people today being adamant saying Jesus is absolutely coming back no matter how long it takes. But, will there be people in 4019 A.D. still as adamant? I have often wondered about this. But never thought to ask others. Does Christianity have an expiration date?

I ask myself this often and then I always end up asking myself "What is God's Time?" Does he measure time in years, days, hours, minutes. I heard that the time that we are gone from his presence is that of a "blink of an eye". So this gets me thinking that even though our lives seem long, are they?
And then I go back to the plan of salvation and that if the plan is that every son and daughter of god needs to come here to receive a body, then when he is about to return, is there no more births because there are no more spirits needing bodies? Maybe that's why births have been declining over the past couple of years! I don't know!

My grandmother, that was the most spiritual and purest person I know always told me as I was growing up that she was going to witness the second coming before she died because of what she was told/taught by the prophets of the church. Well.... she died in 2009. I guess we can all hope.