does 2012 have any relevance in Christianity?

[chinese_democracy]

If there are any doomsday believers here.....can I have all your stuff on 12/31/2011 please?

 

[JoeKickAzz]

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

maybe its the year they might graduate in? idk

 

[JoeKickAzz]

If there are any doomsday believers here.....can I have all your stuff on 12/31/2011 please?

you are so stupid, its gonna "happen" on 12/21/12 not the first day of 2012

 

[RoyalStranger]

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.

Suddenly it all makes sense!!

 

[Kajin]

It's only relevent because people have used mathematical theories to read in between the lines of the bible and managed to find a "hidden message" that the world will indeed end on 2012. But the math they used is incredibly vague at best. Someone else used the same equation to find a reference to 9/11 in moby dick.

I'll eat my own hat if the world actually ends on 2012

*Disclaimer*
Unless I'm dead. So... Nyah nyah!

EDIT
For the life of me I can't remember what that particular math is called, if someone could identify it?

 

[scotth266]

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.

I am now going to post this in every single 2012 thread I see.

You have impressed me.

 

[SendMeNoodz84]

*sigh*
Go do some research on the internet. I mean actual SCIENCE websites. There you will find your answer on wether or not 2012 is bullshit.
Spoiler: Yes it is. Grow up. Get on with your life.

 

[VanityGirl]

2012's end of the world is a bunch of bullcrap.
The Mayans had more than one calender to predict things, such as the agriculteral calender which I think ran up like 800+ years ago.
http://www.universetoday.com/2008/05/19/no-doomsday-in-2012/
there's a link to a few of the doomsday stuffs^^^

Also, I'm a Christian and no, we don't have any prophecies of the world ending in 2012.
Actually, in the Christian religion, we consider the rapture to be the end of the world, this will be when Jesus comes back to earth. The Bible says he will come "like a thief in the night", when no one's expecting it. Considering many people are all about Doomsday in 2012, I don't think it'll happen.

I'm not up to speed as I should be with my Biblical stuff, but I do know that before the rapture, a few things must happen:

-we must have the same currency. (some people say credit cards, but that's vague)
-people will becomed marked
-the antiChrist must be born and rise to power
-everyone will think he's great and love him (for a while)


I forget the rest. There's a whole list. As far as I know, there's no antiChrist. =P

 

[Silva]

the prediction cycle of the chinese iching ends on 2012... just putting that out there to freak you guys.

The Hopi indians calendar also end in December 2012... back at you.

This is insignificant. Both of those cycles are made so that they restart once they reach their end. The same can be said of the Mayan calendar - that's why it's called a calendar, by definition a calendar repeats itself once a cycle is completed. That's why in the Roman calendar, when the end of December comes, January starts.

There's no difference between that and the other ancient calendars in this sense - all of these systems are connected to astrology and seasonal cycles, which move our view of the ecliptic around (with a slight discrepancy that changes the pattern by several degrees over thousands of years, which these civilisations were unable to detect).

These systems are designed to repeat. The end of them does not signify the end of the world by default. Prophecy might, but in most of these cultures, that's not the case.

Let's stop pretending these cultures all predicted the end of the world; that's as culturally ignorant as a statement as the belief itself, which is so obviously inaccurate.

 

[Motti]

maybe the mayans just got lazy and just ended their calender at 2012

This.
Why exactly does a calender determine the end of the world?
My calender ends on December the 31 2009, but that doesn't mean that the world will end with it.

 

[Silva]

This.
Why exactly does a calender determine the end of the world?
My calender ends on December the 31 2009, but that doesn't mean that the world will end with it.

It seems I got ninja'd.

 

[Thaius]

It's said in the bible that for the next 2000 years (after 2000 ad) satan will rule the Earth.

If you believe that bollocks, anyway.

Where on earth does the Bible say Satan will rule the world after 2000? Never in my life have I heard or read that...

 

[Kajin]

maybe the mayans just got lazy and just ended their calender at 2012

This.
Why exactly does a calender determine the end of the world?
My calender ends on December the 31 2009, but that doesn't mean that the world will end with it.

Holy !@#$
This guys calender ends on the last day of the year! That isn't supposed to happen! It must mean... We're all gonna die! Time to start looting. Who wants to start an "End of the World: Store Robbing" Guild?

 

[VanityGirl]

It's said in the bible that for the next 2000 years (after 2000 ad) satan will rule the Earth.

If you believe that bollocks, anyway.

Where on earth does the Bible say Satan will rule the world after 2000? Never in my life have I heard or read that...

It doesn't. I think Satan will rule the world for 2000 YEARS after the return of Christ and the rapture.
The Bible doesn't give specific dates.

 

[Thaius]

It's said in the bible that for the next 2000 years (after 2000 ad) satan will rule the Earth.

If you believe that bollocks, anyway.

Where on earth does the Bible say Satan will rule the world after 2000? Never in my life have I heard or read that...

It doesn't. I think Satan will rule the world for 2000 YEARS after the return of Christ and the rapture.
The Bible doesn't give specific dates.

Well there's a lot of different interpretations of what the Bible says about the end times: we really won't know until we get there.

 

[park92]

i've read the bible it says he'll come at the least expected time lots of people are expecting him he's not coming

 

[Cxizent]

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.

In fact, it goes so far as to say that not even Jesus Himself knows (in Matthew somewhere, chapter 25 or 26?). So yeah, as far as I know, it doesn't really divulge a date.

 

[Abedeus]

We all know that all VHS tapes are destroyed in the 23rd century during the Second Coming of Jesus. Futurama said so, and I agree - we still have 400 more years, give or take.

 

[Undercover]

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.

I can't go into specific detail, but you're on the right track there. I remember reading something like what you're talking about and throughout history the christian calendar has had some SERIOUS editing done to it! I don't remember the year, but at some point in history the calendar got so screwed up that the pope at the time decided that an entire month had to simply "Disappear"! That probably had to do with all the leap years adding up. I think that might even be how leap years started. The christian calendar is not a very accurate one.

See what happens when you think logically? I'm glad you brought that up, well done!

Now as far as the year 2012 having significance, it has a great DEAL of significance!

I mean, its the year after 2011! Other than that, I wouldn't worry too much.