@secondson saidGalveston75 believes the world will be destroyed. My point is, as I said, if the human race gets wiped out, whether people were using the word "planet" or "world" beforehand to refer to their habitat, then what does it matter? Death is the end. And if humans become extinct, then so will language.
So what's your point? Do you think Galveston was saying the human race will be wiped out and become extinct?
@secondson saidI don't really see how whatever you happen to think is "accepted scholarship" affects what I say to galveston75.
what I actually think is that you're making hay over Galveston's misunderstanding and misapplication of biblical theology relative to the "end times" and the "last days", which is your prerogative of course, but it is a fruitless and vain pursuit to question a person out on the fringes of accepted scholarship with regards to the biblical narrative, by you an unbeliever.
@secondson saidYes, of course.
Then I'll ask you the same question. Do you think you are a more independent-minded individual than Galveston?
@secondson saidDo you think you are a more independent-minded Christian than galveston75 is?
You can pass on answering because I already know what you think, and that's ok.
@fmf saidCan't you see how convoluted the logic of that kind of reasoning is?
Galveston75 believes the world will be destroyed. My point is, as I said, if the human race gets wiped out, whether people were using the word "planet" or "world" beforehand to refer to their habitat, then what does it matter? Death is the end. And if humans become extinct, then so will language.
The whole matter concerning the "last days" and "end times" is laid out clearly in the narrative of the Bible. Nowhere in it does it say the human race is wiped out and becomes extinct.
Sorry I horned in on your discussion with Galveston. Have at it with him if you think it'll do you any good.
@secondson saidgalveston75 believes the world is being destroyed by the human race behaviour. He mentioned pollution for example. If the Earth becomes uninhabitable and "the world " is destroyed, then I believe it will be because of natural causes not supernatural ones. Quibbling over the terms "the planet" and "the world" [and which gets destroyed, and therefore where all the supposedly immortal Jehovah's Witnesses will live] is, in my view, moot.
The whole matter concerning the "last days" and "end times" is laid out clearly in the narrative of the Bible. Nowhere in it does it say the human race is wiped out and becomes extinct.
@secondson saidThat's what this forum is for: debating with people who have different beliefs.
Yet you debate with Galveston while not believing a word he says.