Housebroken Lunatic said:
believer258 said:
Ever read Revelations? Heard of Jesus' Second coming? That's supposed to happen sometime around an apocalypse. Biblical scholars have been studying Revelations for centuries and it still eludes them - pretty much all we know is that it uses a ton of symbolism to describe an apocalyptic event where God comes and saves his people. And I don't think it's the same kind of apocalypse depicted in Fallout or The Book of Eli or other such works.
A lot of that symbolism also refers to the fall of the Romans, who persecuted Christians. Oh, this really isn't a topic I can cover very well in a forum post...
Well revelations wasn't written by God now was it? Humans wrote it. So it is essentially worthless as a source of information if you're trying to determine what God is planning.
Also your somewhat off-topic statements didn't answer my question in the slightest, and the question remains:
Why would God in his "infinite wisdom", CHANGE any of his divine plans because some little Christian ask him to? I mean they are DIVINE plans after all, it's pretty safe to assume that there's no stopping or changing them just because some insignificant human wants them to be changed, stopped or altered in any other way.
believer258 said:
On topic, I really don't want any of our fictional apocalypses. Why on Earth would I give up the comfort of this world as it is now for a struggle to survive just so I can feel like a "badass"? Especially when the chances are that if the apocalyptic event doesn't kill me, the later disease and murderous lunatics probably will?
Have you ever truly felt "badass"? And I mean in an actual real-life way, not because you managed to kill a "boss" in a videogame. Who knows, perhaps you'd like it enough to find all those comforts of this world to be worthless in comparison to that feeling.
Christians believe that the Bible was inspired by God. So yes, in a sense, it was written by God. From the Christian perspective only, as far as I know.
Praying for God's "Kingdom to come soon" is a Christian saying that he or she anticipates it; it will be a day when God's glory is shown to everyone and when all evil will be gone, etc. No one is asking God to change his plans, just to bring them about as quickly as possible. OK, changing the time that they happen, I guess, but you see what I'm saying. You're asking me to explain things that people have spent centuries studying; it isn't easy to sum up in one measly forum post. If you are interested:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Revelation
And I know I still didn't satisfactorily answer your question. That's because I don't really have a good answer at all. The best I can say is that, as Christians believe it, God does listen to our prayers. He loves us all despite our sins, and does listen.
Finally, as for the feeling of "badassery" - I never have felt it. If the apocalypse - the one(s) depicted in various fictions, not the one(s) depicted in various scriptures - were to happen, no matter how badass I felt I would still have preferred that all of those people not died. I guess I'm a sort of a jerk with a heart of gold or something. I would rather them all have stayed alive. And then I could get back to being a smartass and you could get back to being a misanthrope.