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<blockquote data-quote="Vasily Martian" data-source="post: 1560342" data-attributes="member: 22018">&quot;That said, globalization and advanced technology have allowed the fulfillment of the end times to be more possible than ever before.&quot;For sure. While we must always ultimately say that we don't really know when the end will be, it's also possible to think about it a little, and offer ideas as they come up. To that end, it's occurred to me that, because love and its accompanying freewill are so central to God and His purpose for creation, the end of that creation must come when freewill and genuine love are completely gone. While the above seems reasonable, I can see that it might not have been readily apparent to Christians of previous generations, who simply couldn't have known the extent to which technology could/would develop, and its ability to enslave people totally. Therefore, when we say today that the end appears to be near - despite the definition of &quot;near&quot; still being vague - there does seem to be more truth behind it, than in the claims of Christians gone by...(putting aside 1. The obvious fact that the world didn't end in the past; 2. The lineal aspect of time and how we - a later generation - must naturally be closer to the end).After all, almost nothing says a lack of love and freewill quite like being on the verge of not being able to breathe without digital monitoring and permission.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Vasily Martian, post: 1560342, member: 22018"] [I]"That said, globalization and advanced technology have allowed the fulfillment of the end times to be more possible than ever before."[/I] For sure. While we must always ultimately say that we don't really know when the end will be, it's also possible to think about it a little, and offer ideas as they come up. To that end, it's occurred to me that, because love and its accompanying freewill are so central to God and His purpose for creation, the end of that creation must come when freewill and genuine love are completely gone. While the above seems reasonable, I can see that it might not have been readily apparent to Christians of previous generations, who simply couldn't have known the extent to which technology could/would develop, and its ability to enslave people totally. Therefore, when we say today that the end appears to be near - despite the definition of "near" still being vague - there does seem to be more truth behind it, than in the claims of Christians gone by...(putting aside 1. The obvious fact that the world didn't end in the past; 2. The lineal aspect of time and how we - a later generation - must naturally be closer to the end). After all, almost nothing says a lack of love and freewill quite like being on the verge of not being able to breathe without digital monitoring and permission. [/QUOTE]

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