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Originally Posted by Abounding
Thank you for your responses. I enjoyed reading them. I think that your point is to just go to the Bible for my questions and to listen to everyone's interpretations. I think that you are right. I am ready to see the Bible for myself and without veils. I kind of feel like if you are always looking at someone else's interpretation, you are veiled. I am curious about other peoples ideas, however, especially regarding the trinity and the end times.
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Matt 24: 37But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
This verse likens the end times to "the days" of Noah. Please note, Jesus didn't say today would be like the "time" of Noah, which it isn't, but like the "days" of Noah. For example, the day Noah learned that the world as he knew it would be wiped out in a flood, the day God told him to build a boat, the day he put all the animals in the boat, the day it began to rain, etc.
I have talked to people who don't believe that the story of Noah is true. Imagine what the odds are that history would repeat itself if it never even happened in the first place. Yet, here we are, only the second time in recorded history where man is actually building "an ark" to preserve all of the creatures to survive the end times. And we also have the same "days". There was the day that Time magazine made the Earth the man of the year for the very reason that so many creatures were going extinct. There was the day that man began to set up seed banks and DNA banks, comparing them to Noah's ark, etc.
Personally I am very impressed that Teddy Roosevelt had the foresight to create national parks and try to preserve nature at the turn of the century, but compared to Jesus who saw this 2,000 years ago, what is that?