Half of Christians Think Jesus Will Return Within 40 Years

[rrneck]

Theologians and scholars have debated the Second Coming for centuries, arguing over when it will happen, if it can be predicted, and signs showing its imminent arrival. The Bible states that no one but God knows when Jesus will return and that the return will be swift and unexpected: “No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. Be on guard! Be alert! You do not know when that time will come.”
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[goldent]

1. I'm still waiting for my flying car

although people tell me the google self driving car might even be before that

[edhopper]

17. While the Jetsons were cool

think about the average driver, do you EVER want to see these people piloting a flying car?
Scary!

[MyshkinCommaPrince]

19. Used flying cars...

When that used flying car has been through three owners and is barely running, it conks out on some poor person who can barely keep it running. Look out below! And imagine the cost of flying car insurance. Yeeks.

Sadly, I think the Suck Fairy has visited my opinion of flying cars, since I was a kid. Stupid Suck Fairy. Made it hard for me to appreciate the Hobbit movie, too, for completely unrelated reasons. Umm.

So, flying cars bad. But I haven't given up on Cities on Mars. Gotta have some kind of sci-fi futurist dreamy-dream....

[Pale Blue Dot]

2. Do they also think that soon

we will find concrete, contemporary evidence that he was ever here in the first place?

[Phillip McCleod]

21. josephus! ;)

[dballance]

3. UM, Didn't Jesus Tell His Disciples He'd Return Before they Died?

I'm thinking about:

"Truly I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all things take place." which seems pretty clear that the end of mankind will happen within the lifetimes of his original followers.

[Moonwalk]

6. Well, he did return before they died. Three days after he went, he was back with 'em...

...or doesn't that count?

[dballance]

7. Good Point. But not Really the Bluster They Expected

Yep, the alleged Jesus allegedly did come back from the dead. You can read the varying and conflicting stories of that in the gospels that make the story just about as ridiculously false as Noah's great flood or the tower of Babel.

[Thinkingabout]

4. It is time to allow God to do his work because I am sure he is much more capable than we are.

We should live to the best of our abilities, to be on the prepared side. This one subject I do not worry about, I leave this to God, try to live as Jesus taught me.

[cleanhippie]

24. Very noble, but wouldn't it be more accurate to say

That you live as someone who told you what they were told about Jesus?

[No Vested Interest]

5. Put me down as "Don't know"

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

8. If he does, he's gonna be pissed off,

and the fundies might be pretty surprised to find out who he's pissed off at.

[TygrBright]

9. :Sigh: They're all wrong. He never left. n/t

[riverbendviewgal]

10. Maybe he is here already

As pope Francis, who seems to be doing more Jesus actions than any pope I've known in my lifetime.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

11. The best part of your snippit.

Be alert! You do not know when that time will come.”
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[muriel_volestrangler]

12. Probably Republicans think a 2nd coming is more likely than global warming

What is truly depressing is that only 48% of Republicans thought the Earth would be warmer by 2050, while 58% of white evangelicals thought the second coming is definite or probable. Given the high overlap between those groups, I suspect that if you asked either Republicans, or white evangelicals, what is more likely, both groups would pick the second coming. Science be damned, life is about them being the centre of the universe, isn't it? Ignore what science says will happen; ignore what your own scripture actually says about its promised second coming being at an unknown time; they just have to believe it's their time in the world that is the important one.

http://www.people-press.org/files/legacy-pdf/625.pdf

(removed my earlier objection to their figures when I realised they are now given the percentage of US Christians, when before it was the percentage of all respondents, including non-Christians)

[skepticscott]

14. Look at it this way

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Given the likelihood of the one, and the consequences of it, we may be well and truly fucked if the other doesn't (finally) happen in the next 40 years.

Of course, if it does, all of us atheists will be well and truly fucked regardless...no matter how you slice it, things are going to get much warmer for non-believers.

[eomer]

16. Not necessarily, Pascal's wager is flawed.

Pascal had no way of knowing that believing would turn out to be the magical key to entry - why couldn't it be that not believing was it all along?

[skepticscott]

18. Well, all the people eagerly looking forward to the Second Coming

and to watching atheists, heathens and other evildoers be stung by scorpions, boiled in hot oil and made to listen to Yanni for a thousand years, would be greatly disappointed if that turned out to be the case.

[edhopper]

20. Not Yanni!

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[skepticscott]

22. That torture is so hideous

that they didn't even dare to include it in Revelation. Little known fact...

[ladjf]

13. Superstition is a dangerous thing. nt

[skepticscott]

15. It would be interesting

to see how far back this type of question has been asked of people, and what percentages of people 50 or 100 years ago also thought that Jesus would be back in 40 years. It would also be interesting to show those results to the respondents for this poll, and then ask them again a week later and see if the numbers change.

[Phillip McCleod]

23. haille sellasie already came and went

his official titles, applied based on tribal affiliation to each new incoming potentate of ethiopia, coincidentally turned out to be, 'king of kings, lord of lords, and conquering lion of the tribe of judah'

legend has it he took down a plane with a spear from horseback when he took his country back from the fascists with the help of the nyabinghi warriors.

the 'league of nations' was also his idea.. the prototype for the united nations.

face it, christians of the world.. jesus returned and *you missed it*

NOW can we stop waiting for the end of the world?

[Gore1FL]

25. Jesus 2 electric boogaloo

It really has been a long time between the release of the first story and the sequel. I'd be amazed if they can get any of the original cast.

[madrchsod]

26. a few weeks ago i was basically dead but i`m alive now....

full cardio arrest...my wife and paramedics got me to the hospital,stents,i failed to wake up. off to a regional hospital where i spent several days at 91-2 degrees. i finally woke up with a pace maker-defibrillator in my shoulder. 20% of the people survive what happened to me.

i guess there might be more "jesus" walking around than ya think.......

[cbayer]

27. Wow! So glad to hear that you got through all of this.