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CF has always been a site that welcomes people from different backgrounds and beliefs to participate in discussion and even debate. That is the nature of its ministry. In view of recent events emotions are running very high. We need to remind people of some basic principles in debating on this site. We need to be civil when we express differences in opinion. No personal attacks. Avoid you, your statements. Don't characterize an entire political party with comparisons to Fascism or Communism or other extreme movements that committed atrocities. CF is not the place for broad brush or blanket statements about groups and political parties. Put the broad brushes and blankets away when you come to CF, better yet, put them in the incinerator. Debate had no place for them. We need to remember that people that commit acts of violence represent themselves or a small extreme faction.
Eschatology Note # 10 - DLF
Humanity has for centuries been viewing the heavens - outer space - for "signs" or indicators meaningful to us. Nowadays it is no different and star-gazing is enhanced by more powerful optical telescopes on earth and in space, and radio-telescopes that can receive...
Some of the ideas we have in our minds that do not seem to directly relate to eschatology can nevertheless affect how we think about it. One of them is the difference in outlook of the ancient Greeks and Hebrews that contrasts Greek philosophy with a biblical outlook. One particular difference...
In Revelation 13, two monsters or "beasts" appear, one of "the sea" and the other of "the earth". Eschatologists have proposed explanations for the sea and the earth. Some earlier Adventists proposed that the sea is the UK and the earth is the U.S. because Britain is isles of the sea and has...
By Revelation 12 the sequence of the trumpets seems to have ended in Rev. 11, with "the kingdom of the world" becoming "the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ [Messiah]" followed by celebrating by the victors in the kingdom. Then a little farther on at the end of Rev. 11 there are flashes of...
Eschatology 6 - DLF
"Revelation, n. A famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by commentators, who know nothing." _The Devil's Dictionary_, Ambrose Bierce, 19th century American priest, Dover, 1958.
In Revelation, the "four living...
Eschatology Note # 5
In the writing of John's Revelation, there is a structure to the presentation of what John saw by means of "a door standing open in heaven" (Rev. 4) My mental picture of this is that he was taken up aboard an aerial craft and shown some "videos". This was a memorable...
Eschatology Note # 4
Biblical eschatology is not presented in a way that would allow a detailed future history to be determined from it. Such predictive powers would give its knowers too much power, such as the ability to "make a killing" in the stock market. From eschatology that has been...
Eschatology Note # 3
One of the impediments in understanding biblical eschatology are the meanings of some of the words. If taken literally, they make no sense; they must be metaphorical, at least in our understanding of the translated English. In Revelation, the words "throne" and "cloud"...
Eschatology Note # 2
In research, whether it be scientific, engineering, or legal, progress is made when the right questions are asked and pursued. Eschatological research is no different. A key question of history has a major bearing on the eschatological picture, a question that has been...
Eschatology Note # 1
I have been putting some effort into studying biblical eschatology. This is, to many Christians, about like trying to learn particle physics, but it is possible (and somebody has to do it!). Certainly I do not have the remaining future to the end of the age figured out, but...
