05-11-2018, 12:49 PM
(05-11-2018, 12:30 AM)Greg D Wrote: How is it that every other culture understands the end times prophecy more than the Bible. The Aboriginal Dream time states that the rivers and the earth were created by a Rainbow serpent. The holy men of India believe your soul is cleansed by washing your body in the most polluted river on earth, the Ganges.
Its probably true in one sense, you would more than likely have a near death experience in the two days spent in the toilet afterwards. Then there's the American Indians and the Great Spirit, the Chinese who do by the way have many Bible stories in their ancient writings which include a Dragon by the way.
This came more likely to their proximity to Adams descendants than by a private revelation. The Bible in Ezekiel Chapter 38 gives a complete rundown of the nations involved in the doomsday battle and how it comes to pass. This is backed up by current events daily, with the major players Russia, Iran, America, Britain and Syria all mentioned in Ezekiel 38 and of course the land of Israel as it's focal point. Jesus told the Jews in Mat 16:2 He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red. Mat 16:3 And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?
Perhaps the answers are under our nose in the western world, even in hospital draws, hotel rooms, op shops, jail cells and in a lot old cupboards in peoples houses, the seldom read Bible. Acts Chapter 17:22 Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. Act 17:23 For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you. Act 17:24 God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands; Act 17:26
And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation; Act 17:27 That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us: Act 17:30 And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent: Act 17:31 Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead. Act 17:32
And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear thee again of this matter. I heard the testimony of a man who traveled all over India and Nepal looking for answers to life's questions.
On his return he was spoken to by a man who lived in the next street near his home, that man had received the Holy Spirit and spoken in tongues and been baptized by full immersion. After doing the same he too received Gods answers to lifes questions. I can also say Amen to this mans story and like my brother Paul the apostle I will keep trying to present the unknown God to this Forum.
I see things like this,
Of all the dissasters in the bible, all are much older than it, much older, so these stories are merely copies of what was word of mouth and sympathetic magic about the natural dissasters which effected the entire planet at once.
Biblical is merely a copy of all of the older myths/texts that came before mankind could write things down and record physically, and has been corrupted by the written word of those who sought control of the minds of the masses.
What is clear is, the planet was circumnavigated thousands of years before the bible came into codex, a codex which was for cetain eyes only, only to be abused by those who translated what was natural and converted it into liesand the spoken word.
All religion is a continuous lie in my eyes.