does 2012 have any relevance in Christianity?

[2012 Wont Happen]

I know that the 2012 apocalypse is based on the Mayan calendar. But today at school I saw somebody with a bunch of Christian symbols and then also the number "2012" stitched on their backpack which made me wonder if 2012 has some importance in revelations or some such

 

[somekindarobot]

As far as I know, no, but I'm sure one can establish a link through the Magic of Bullshit(TM), which pretty much involves everything involving this 2012 doomsday crap.

 

[Jamis]

I think ther real question is "Does Christianity still have any relevance?". As for your question? Not really, the date is all hypothetical left out, or up to the whimsy of "God".

 

[RedDiablo]

Rather ironic, seeing the Mayan's religion is pagan to Christians, so why would they believe in it?

 

[DrDeath3191]

No. Not at all, from what I've learned in my 12 years of Catholic schools.

 

[Gigaguy64]

No. But some of the nutjob christians (I am not flaming christans. Just nutjobs that exist in every single walk of life) will no doubt claim it is when Jesus is returning. Just on the off chance that it is true they would hate for some one elses religion to get the credit.

same here, there a lot of crazys that want to scare people into joining there church, the truth is that the Bible says no man knows the day nor time of Jesus's return.

 

[RavingPenguin]

No, according to christian beliefs based on the Bible, not it cannot. Revalation (I beleive) states, No man knows the time, or something to that extent.

 

[lostclause]

Rather ironic, seeing the Mayan's religion is pagan to Christians, so why would they believe in it?

I'm with this. Although it seems that doomsday theories can cross religious boundaries.

There were a fair few people running around on the whole 6/6/06 thing but this one doesn't even make any sense (not that that one made much more).

 

[ShadeOfRed]

Here's my thoughts on the thing.
It won't be in 2012, it will be sooner. Why? Leap days. No doubt the Aztecs knew about the whole rotation and revolution of the Earth around the Sun, like all pre Dark Ages cultures they knew their shit. What they couldn't have known however, was that the Dark Ages buggered everything about how they would've told time up, and sometime after that we added our Leap Years. I am not at all sure when we added them in, but unless someone did some date buggering we're not going to have an apocalypse on that day.
And as far as I know, 2012 has no relevence to any of my Christian friends.

 

[Darzen]

ya this was established as doomsday before christianity came to the other part of the world(north and south america).all Aztec calenders(to my knowledge)end at 2012.then theres this whole science thing blah blah blah world ending all life destroyed blah blah blah yada yada yada and we all die

 

[Shoggoth2588]

The christians think Jesus will return then and that the world will end and blah, blah, blah and there will be doom and death for the non-believers and blah-de-blad-de-blah and power and glory for the true believers blah-blah-blah and there will be shrimp toast and cake when it's all over -shrugs-

 

[Moosebite]

I think its going to be the next best punchline to Y2K. I 'll never forget laughing my ass off the next day

 

[S-Unleashed]

No none at all.

 

[MajoraPersona]

The digit sum of 2012 is 5. May is the 5th month. May shares two letters in common with March. March would have been the month Jesus Christ would have been conceived in had he been human. I actually was conceived on or around March 25, approximately 9 months before December 25th, when I was expected to be born. However, I was born 4 days late. In certain Asian countries, Japan for example, the word for the number 4 is the same as the word for death. This same word begins and ends many other words (because it's basically a letter), and relates to things like actions and divinities. In fact, the Japanese approximation of my name's meaning would begin with "shi", which is the aforementioned #4 and Death. #4 was a fat baseball player from One Piece with a gun that could turn into a dog. Coyote Stark from Bleach has guns that turn into a half-naked loli. Three girls get very Yuri in the ending of the Needless anime. The Needless manga has only 10 chapters translated on OneManga at the time of this writing. I have a tab of OneManga open right now.

I will be turning 23 in 2012, so Jim Carrey may or may not be involved. We won't know for a while.

 

[Craig FTW]

I think some Christians think that it IS when Jesus will return. They might have their brains warped from all the 2012 paranoia.
As for me, I don't know when Jesus will return, but I don't think it will be in 2012. However, if it somehow is, I will try to be prepared.

 

[CrazyGirl17]

I really hope that isn't the case, but I have enough of people claiming that the world will end on Dec 12. I'm paranoid enough as it is, I don't need nutjobs reinforcing that fear!

(No offense meant, I'm just tired of hearing it.)