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<blockquote data-quote="Kid Twist" data-source="post: 1265223" data-attributes="member: 10894">It is eerie how many confused, false belief systems still find a way to converge on, or play a role in the way things happen or the way the just believe they will happen. &quot;Christ&quot; coming again is the sticking point, remember, what underlies all of this is the question, &quot;Who do you say that I am?&quot;It&#039;s amusing on an academic level (scary on a human level) that open minded &quot;jews&quot; believe that potentially there will be a convergence of Christ coming again (the messiah they&#039;ve been waiting for) but don&#039;t understand that they don&#039;t know who he is, so it wouldn&#039;t matter anyway. The suggestion there is that none of us really know what&#039;s going on, which defeats the point of right belief.Of course, none of us can actually predict any of what really will happen, we can only speculate. But we do know key characteristics about the person of Jesus Christ that have been revealed so that if you remain faithful, you will in fact know (and there will be a price --- that is how you know).I have always found that the eschatology of the Zoroastrians is also quite fascinating in that the christian concepts are similar and there is a testing by fire, an allegory the saints have used many times to discern how strong the foundation of anything is.Richardson may be correct, but what&#039;s more important is of course, to remain faithful.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kid Twist, post: 1265223, member: 10894"] It is eerie how many confused, false belief systems still find a way to converge on, or play a role in the way things happen or the way the just believe they will happen. "Christ" coming again is the sticking point, remember, what underlies all of this is the question, "Who do you say that I am?" It's amusing on an academic level (scary on a human level) that open minded "jews" believe that potentially there will be a convergence of Christ coming again (the messiah they've been waiting for) but don't understand that they don't know who he is, so it wouldn't matter anyway. The suggestion there is that none of us really know what's going on, which defeats the point of right belief. Of course, none of us can actually predict any of what really will happen, we can only speculate. But we do know key characteristics about the person of Jesus Christ that have been revealed so that if you remain faithful, you will in fact know (and there will be a price --- [i][b]that [/b][/i]is how you know). I have always found that the eschatology of the Zoroastrians is also quite fascinating in that the christian concepts are similar and there is a testing by fire, an allegory the saints have used many times to discern how strong the foundation of anything is. Richardson may be correct, but what's more important is of course, to remain faithful. [/QUOTE]

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