At which point do the prophetic messages break as mankind moves further and further away from Biblical contexts?
For example, assume that the current private space race provides us with a jolt and mankind begins colonizing the Solar System within the next 200 years (during which, the final End Times fails to materialize). Given that mankind is spread beyond Earth, thinks like Wormwood (for example) and the poisoning of a third of the world's waters becomes a bit less serious than it would be now? At what point does The Book of Revelation slip from "vision" to "poetry" as already has happened with Genesis in your case?
Asking because it seems like prophecy in religion has a nice short term effect in boosting compliance and belief, but that peters out and becomes a negative as time goes on and the prophecies make less and less sense, given the context shifts over time.
Out of all the cons I witnessed while at church I think the "end times" lie has done the most damage. Now christians have been telling themselves they were in the end times for basically all of their history. it has become the ultimate cop out. Fix climate change? Just hasten the return of Christ. True lasting Peace? Not until the return of the "Prince of Peace", so why try. On and on their excuses pile up.
It's really just a way for people to ignore the state of the world.
Only one person has been right about the end times so far and that's Dr. Strange.
At which point do the prophetic messages break as mankind moves further and further away from Biblical contexts?
For example, assume that the current private space race provides us with a jolt and mankind begins colonizing the Solar System within the next 200 years (during which, the final End Times fails to materialize). Given that mankind is spread beyond Earth, thinks like Wormwood (for example) and the poisoning of a third of the world's waters becomes a bit less serious than it would be now? At what point does The Book of Revelation slip from "vision" to "poetry" as already has happened with Genesis in your case?
Asking because it seems like prophecy in religion has a nice short term effect in boosting compliance and belief, but that peters out and becomes a negative as time goes on and the prophecies make less and less sense, given the context shifts over time.
Out of all the cons I witnessed while at church I think the "end times" lie has done the most damage. Now christians have been telling themselves they were in the end times for basically all of their history. it has become the ultimate cop out. Fix climate change? Just hasten the return of Christ. True lasting Peace? Not until the return of the "Prince of Peace", so why try. On and on their excuses pile up.
It's really just a way for people to ignore the state of the world.
Only one person has been right about the end times so far and that's Dr. Strange.