One World Religion

@medullah said
It's going into reverse now in some places.

In the western world cancer rates have increased by 33% in the last 15 years (300% in India in the last two).

Survival rates from an individual spending 5 years on Chemotherapy is less than 5%. The Average life expectancy in America went into recession a few years ago. The UK has just followed suit.

Japan does indeed have ...[text shortened]... ently have also experienced unusually long lifetimes.

Just thought somebody might be interested.

Yes, I had read the same thing. The trend is reversing.

@fmf said
No.

You do realize that "500 million" is "0.5 billion", right?

That's because I didn't, but accept that you made a mistake (people do).

Leave it out. If your going to be funny how about a proper joke. Why did the chicken cross the road or something like that?

I'll tell you one.

Q What do they call a monkey that steps on a land mine?
A A Baboom.

@medullah said
That's because I didn't, but accept that you made a mistake (people do).

Leave it out. If your going to be funny how about a proper joke.

I wasn't joking. 500 million = 0.5 billion. No joke.

@secondson said
Yes, I had read the same thing. The trend is reversing.

In the UK we rely on immigration to maintain our services.

The natural fertility of the male population of the UK is in nosedive - down 40% in 40 years according to a professor or reproductive medicine at Royal Edinburgh University Hospital.

This is why I say when FMF asks about steps to cut the populace over the last 27 years - the dominoes are lined up but aren't yet falling.

@fmf said
I wasn't joking. 500 million = 0.5 billion. No joke.

You're going to be telling me that Santa doesn't exist next aren't you?

@wolfe63 said
"Trust me. You have no clue about what the "motive" of the church is."
- secondson

OK, I'll take your current word for it.

But a quick meta observation of church history reveals a dubious trajectory. If absolute theocracy is not the aim, then what is the point of religion dabbling in state affairs and politics?

Shouldn't you just be living a clean, good life as wit ...[text shortened]... than advocating for political means that justify your religious ends? I mean, what's the goal here?

Your post is refreshingly honest and straightforward. Seems it's been a long time since I've seen one.

Question 1.) It's true. Historically, some have endeavored to implement church doctrine into secular governments. There are parts of the church that believe "the church" is the instrument that God is using to usher in the "Kingdom of God" on earth.

Not so. "The church", and New Testament doctrine is for one purpose, and that is for building up its members and equipping them for service to both itself and the furtherance of the gospel. That does not include forcing anyone to adhere to its policies and principles in the form of government mandates and laws.

But that does not mean that a member of the church that aspires to secular human government should not act, in office, according to their convictions.

Question 2.) Yes indeed should a Christian witness to the testimony of Christ in all he or she thinks, says and does.

The goal? The goal, relative to God's plans, is set and implemented by God Himself. The end is Jesus Christ ruling on earth during the millennium. Jesus won't need an army to institute the purposes of His will.

Then will the world be under the sovereign control of the only "theocracy" that means anything.

Some, if they live long enough, won't believe it till they see it.

I long for it because I believe the Bible. I hope to be alive to see it. I'm living in expectation of the eminent return of Christ, and it appears to me that we're living in what the Bible describes as the "last days".

I sincerely hope I answered satisfactorily.

@medullah said
That's because I didn't, but accept that you made a mistake (people do).

Leave it out. If your going to be funny how about a proper joke. Why did the chicken cross the road or something like that?

I'll tell you one.

Q What do they call a monkey that steps on a land mine?
A A Baboom.

Thanks for the chuckle medullah.

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I almost passed this one by because of its triteness and the mocking tone and attitude of its creator.

But I couldn't resist.

Question 1.) In the last days. A biblical no-brainer.

Question 2.) In the last days. Repeat, a no-brainer.

Comment 3.) The exact dates and times are not revealed, but the season, and the events related to the last days are explained to anyone that reads their Bible, but won't be understood by hypocrites and mockers that claim to be Christian because the "stuff" is spiritually discerned.

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"Conspiratorial religious science fiction"?

Perhaps you should actually read what Jesus said.

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Posting bitch is up your street.

Not a single positive contribution are you able to make. After failing to read and study the Bible all these years you have disqualified yourself from speaking to the topic of end time events, so now all you can do is post your angry, mocking, illiterate and vacuous canned replies.

You're embarrassing.

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You need a concordance to find something in your Bible?

No wonder you can't find the relevant verses and passages. And even if you did you may as well stare at a blank page.

Here, let me help you sort it out.

The terms "one world religion", "new world order", "one world government" and "one world economic system", while not used in scripture, are understood as having meaning relative to what is described in the Bible concerning the political, economic and religious conditions that will exist in the "last days".

Your failure to identify and make sound applications of all the references in the Bible with regards to the prophetic timetable as it unfolds in the world around you in no wise makes them any less clear to the serious Bible student.

Your criticisms of what is being discussed and asserted, and of the posters making a positive contribution to this discourse, are notwithstanding, and are instead making you look like a troll.

I know how much you like to angrily bicker and bitch your way through these threads, so I hope I helped you in your grudge.