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I don't understand two things: 1. Why do some humans want to "hasten the coming of Christ’s return"? 2. Why do some humans think that an all powerful God need
by thhoooowww0101 11mo ago
I don't understand two things:
1. Why do some humans want to "hasten the coming of Christ’s return"?
2. Why do some humans think that an all powerful God needs their help to do what he wants to do?
- ntkhan 11mo ago1. This is usually linked to dispensationalist theology which results in the rapture of the faithful in Christ. 2. Very few do. Most think God allows His creatures to participate in His plans and is pleased when do so in a virtuous way.
- SpicyLemonZest 11mo agoThe Bible, which Christians believe to be divinely inspired or even divinely authored, instructs humans to do this in 2 Peter 3:12.
- pohuing 11mo agoHow does it do that? It just says to keep calm and carry on because hecklers will not understand that God wants everyone to have a chance. Or am I missing context, it's been a couple of years since I've been in church(and a reformed protestant one at that)
- SpicyLemonZest 11mo agoA number of translations specifically say "hastening the coming of the day of God" (https://www.biblegateway.com/verse/en/2%20Peter%203%3A12 https://www.biblegateway.com/verse/en/2%20Peter%203%3A12). You may have one of the ones that doesn't; there's an underlying dispute about the meaning of the Greek verb σπεύδω that I'm not qualified to weigh in on.
- pohuing 11mo agoMine indeed does not contain a similar phrase, it says pretty much the opposite. I guess Luther wasn't interested in the end days much. But then if the first flood came after excessive sin, is the way to hasten the arrival of the end times another time of sin? That explains a lot ig