Where will Christianity be in 100 Years?

[guanophore]

Do you even know what the Lucifer Instrument is and the purpose of it and the information it is gathering?

an acronym for the instruments lengthy title, “Large Binocular Telescope Near-infrared Utility with Camera and Integral Field Unit for Extragalactic Research.”

In Malachi Martin's last interview, Art Bell asked him what the Vatican wanted to do with this high tech observatory?  Do you know his answer?  Do you know more?

Honestly Eazy.

Several news outlets have reported that Pope’s astronomer would be pleased to baptize an alien “no matter how many tentacles it has” as long as she asked.

Is it really a good use of life energy to focus on such wild speculations? I have a proposition for you. If any tentacled entities show up asking for baptism, we can get into it then?

In the meantime, why not deal with what is real today! Let’s talk about what Pope Frances is saying.

Do you think his words will have any impact on Christianity 100 years from now?

Why are you at CAF?

 

[Della]

Do you even know what the Lucifer Instrument is and the purpose of it and the information it is gathering?

In Malachi Martin’s last interview, Art Bell asked him what the Vatican wanted to do with this high tech observatory? Do you know his answer? Do you know more?

I have zippy-do-dah interest in wasting my time on nonsense, thank you just the same.

 

[wmscott]

When I was a member of the Assemblies of God way back in the 80’s we were all worked up over speculations (in some cases outright predictions made in such books as “The Late, Great Planet Earth”) that Jesus had to come by 1988. Why? Because according to their biblical exegesis, the founding of the modern state of Israel would usher in the “last days” (never mind that the Annunciation had already done that), meaning that within one generation–40 years, Jesus would return. Never mind that Jesus expressly told us that no man knows the day and the hour of his return. Well, obviously Jesus didn’t return. A lot of back-peddling had to be done to explain away why nothing happened.

Such predictions and stirring up of conspiracy theories sells books and gets people to respond to “altar calls” but it can’t sustain the soul. Only God’s graces can do that. It’s why so many people who clung to such predictions and responded to altar calls dropped out after a short time–there was nothing in such ideas to keep them from sin or fill their hearts with love of God and neighbor.

Agree… So instead of trying to predict this and that which the Lord has said no man knows the hour, live your life as a Christian to the best of your ability and on the second coming rejoice and embrace “That Hour” as the fulfilling of 1) His promise, and 2) our joy of making it and witnessing Christ coming in triumph.

 

[TonyBS]

Agree… So instead of trying to predict this and that which the Lord has said no man knows the hour, live your life as a Christian to the best of your ability and on the second coming rejoice and embrace “That Hour” as the fulfilling of 1) His promise, and 2) our joy of making it and witnessing Christ coming in triumph.

This is the key to where man will be in 100 years, I expect Pope Francis is a beacon of light that may allow many to understand the “Return”.

Regards Tony

 

[blanchardman]

100 year from now Jesus will be ruling from Jerusalem. The “church” will no longer exist. This is my hope and belief.
What if He has not returned? One thing for sure “we” will be communicating differently.The internet will have been replaced and cell phones,as well as all personal computing devices of today, will be history.
The climate will be cooler, if not colder.
There will still be Christian religions and they will continue to have differences. They will continue to debate over which is the true religion failing to realize that Christianity is.

 

[HelenRose]

Your thoughts please.

Since I do not and can not know the mind of God and His plans for us, I can honestly say, I have no idea. But, I do believe God has the future in His hands.

 

[TonyBS]

Since I do not and can not know the mind of God and His plans for us, I can honestly say, I have no idea. But, I do believe God has the future in His hands.

Well and Truly

One thing to consider though is free will. With this God has given us the ability to change, thus an unwritten future can be changed with our choices.

Regards Tony

 

[Samuel_Monosov]

I predict that Christianity as we know it, along with Islam and Judaism, will have ceased to exist within 100 years. The world 100 years from now will be post-religious.

 

[HerCrazierHalf]

I predict that Christianity as we know it, along with Islam and Judaism, will have ceased to exist within 100 years. The world 100 years from now will be post-religious.

If they do cease they will be replaced. I don’t think most are ready for a world without faith. Too many use faith as a reason or cause for self improvement or basic morality.

Practically speaking, It’s been 2000 years. What’s another 100?

 

[Samuel_Monosov]

If they do cease they will be replaced. I don’t think most are ready for a world without faith. Too many use faith as a reason or cause for self improvement or basic morality.

Practically speaking, It’s been 2000 years. What’s another 100?

I think that more has changed in the past 100 years than in the past 1000. I predict future change will increase exponentially. Technological development will solve many of the problems religion exists to address. The question is whether we will be wise enough to use these developments well. Will we achieve immortality and build a Kingdom of Heaven on Earth, or will we make our planet a hell and destroy ourselves? As an optimist, I believe we will accomplish the former.

Within 100 years, I predict that religion will be rendered unnecessary. We will overcome any need for the supernatural.

 

[JustaServant]

I think that more has changed in the past 100 years than in the past 1000. I predict future change will increase exponentially. Technological development will solve many of the problems religion exists to address. The question is whether we will be wise enough to use these developments well. Will we achieve immortality and build a Kingdom of Heaven on Earth, or will we make our planet a hell and destroy ourselves? As an optimist, I believe we will accomplish the former.

Within 100 years, I predict that religion will be rendered unnecessary. We will overcome any need for the supernatural.

Genesis 3
New International Version (NIV)

3 Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”

2 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 3 but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’”

4 “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. 5 “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

 

[HerCrazierHalf]

Within 100 years, I predict that religion will be rendered unnecessary. We will overcome any need for the supernatural.

One truth (small “t”) is that on the scale of cosmic events we are aware of each person is a speck on a rock hurling through space with no control over the vast majority of the universe, not even collectively. Religion helps some to deal with this.

Also, from listening to believers explain the place of God in their lives it seems many would feel “lost” or having no reason to act morally. It ain’t my cup of tea but I wouldn’t deny others their religion.

 

[TonyBS]

I think that more has changed in the past 100 years than in the past 1000. I predict future change will increase exponentially. Technological development will solve many of the problems religion exists to address. The question is whether we will be wise enough to use these developments well. Will we achieve immortality and build a Kingdom of Heaven on Earth, or will we make our planet a hell and destroy ourselves? As an optimist, I believe we will accomplish the former.

Within 100 years, I predict that religion will be rendered unnecessary. We will overcome any need for the supernatural.

It is already foretold that the world will try to eradicate religion, when it sees that all efforts fail to do this, then the leaders will look for the one that offers the most to heal the ills of the world. This will then be embraced.

The world is as it is as we have turned away from our God and as we turn further away so the calamities increase.

This is all our own doing as the Sun Gives light and life, without the Sun death and decay are inevitable.

Regards Tony

 

[eazyduzit]

It is already foretold that the world will try to eradicate religion, when it sees that all efforts fail to do this, then the leaders will look for the one that offers the most to heal the ills of the world. This will then be embraced.

The world is as it is as we have turned away from our God and as we turn further away so the calamities increase.

This is all our own doing as the Sun Gives light and life, without the Sun death and decay are inevitable.

Regards Tony

Did you mean Son rather than Sun?

Also, the bible foretells that there will be one world religion.

 

[TonyBS]

Did you mean Son rather than Sun?

Also, the bible foretells that there will be one world religion.

I meant Just as God is our Life of the Spirit, so is the Sun of this material world the source of our material Life.

Life without God is Death.

Life without the Sun is Death.

This passage confirms One religion;

Zechariah 14:9And the LORD will be king over all the earth; in that day the LORD will be the only one, and His name the only one.

and Revelation gives us a hint that we will need to overcome a new name;

Revelation 2:17He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes, to him I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and a new name written on the stone which no one knows but he who receives it.’

Regards Tony

 

[Samuel_Monosov]

Also, from listening to believers explain the place of God in their lives it seems many would feel “lost” or having no reason to act morally. It ain’t my cup of tea but I wouldn’t deny others their religion.

Neither would I. This is just a prediction, not a mandate. In addition to being unethical, persecution of ideas can strengthen belief in those ideas. Rather, I think faith will be abandoned through apathy. Religious answers will cease to satisfy.

In 100 years, religion might survive as a hobby for the old, but will be nothing more than that.

Maybe I’m wrong. It’s a hope, I think, a realistic and likely one.

 

[Samuel_Monosov]

Genesis 3
New International Version (NIV)

3 Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”

2 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 3 but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’”

4 “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. 5 “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

This will sound blasphemous, but it is what I think is true. Maybe the serpent had a good point. Jesus seems to say the exact same thing as the serpent when he says:

Jesus answered them: Is it not written in your law: I said you are gods? If he called them gods, to whom the word of God was spoken, and the scripture cannot be broken; Do you say of him whom the Father hath sanctified and sent into the world: Thou blasphemest, because I said, I am the Son of God? (John 10:34–36)

And:

And not for them only do I pray, but for them also who through their word shall believe in me; That they all may be one, as thou, Father, in me, and I in thee; that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. And the glory which thou hast given me, I have given to them; that they may be one, as we also are one: I in them, and thou in me; that they may be made perfect in one: and the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast also loved me.(John 17:20-23)

I believe scientific and moral human progress will lead us to reconcile the gospel of Jesus and the gospel of the serpent. They are at the end of the day the same gospel.