Preachers gonna preach.
Greg Laurie, who is probably a really nice guy, told his congregation that the 2nd coming is coming sooner than later. He thinks so due to…
…the dramatic escalation of global wars and terrorism, the push for unity or globalism, the change in world economics toward a cashless society, the unprecedented increase of killer earthquakes, and false teaching permeating the church.
I am not a historian but I bet there isn’t a dramatic escalation of wars. I suppose there could be a push for globalism but for sure, there are some countries who are going to hold out on the We Are the World remake. False teaching has been with us from the beginning; but what about those earthquakes?
The US Geological Survey must get that question a lot (Are there more earthquakes now?) because they have a page about it here.
We continue to be asked by many people throughout the world if earthquakes are on the increase. Although it may seem that we are having more earthquakes, earthquakes of magnitude 7.0 or greater have remained fairly constant.
A partial explanation may lie in the fact that in the last twenty years, we have definitely had an increase in the number of earthquakes we have been able to locate each year. This is because of the tremendous increase in the number of seismograph stations in the world and the many improvements in global communications. In 1931, there were about 350 stations operating in the world; today, there are more than 8,000 stations and the data now comes in rapidly from these stations by electronic mail, internet and satellite. This increase in the number of stations and the more timely receipt of data has allowed us and other seismological centers to locate earthquakes more rapidly and to locate many small earthquakes which were undetected in earlier years. The NEIC now locates about 20,000 earthquakes each year or approximately 50 per day. Also, because of the improvements in communications and the increased interest in the environment and natural disasters, the public now learns about more earthquakes.
According to long-term records (since about 1900), we expect about 17 major earthquakes (7.0 – 7.9) and one great earthquake (8.0 or above) in any given year.
Vivid events can produce illusory correlations and in this case it appears that a perception of increase is based on better recording of earthquakes rather than an increase in the actual frequency.
Besides NASA says we are all safe…
And we’re seeing our professional Christers (there really should be a term to separate, say, Lou Engle or Pat Robertson, from Christianity) using the devastation of Japan as a money making opportunity.
Personally I don’t think it’s funny. And I seriously question the taste of ‘preachers gonna preach’.
Preachers could also STFU. Japan is shaped like a dragon? God aimed for its head? Really? The Japanese are idolators? They deserve what they got cause of the whole angering god thing? How long till some bright televangelist blames the gays?
The world will end – someday. Could be today, tomorrow or on any other day. Let God handle those worries.
Revelation 2-3.
And we’re seeing our professional Christers (there really should be a term to separate, say, Lou Engle or Pat Robertson, from Christianity) using the devastation of Japan as a money making opportunity.
Personally I don’t think it’s funny. And I seriously question the taste of ‘preachers gonna preach’.
Preachers could also STFU. Japan is shaped like a dragon? God aimed for its head? Really? The Japanese are idolators? They deserve what they got cause of the whole angering god thing? How long till some bright televangelist blames the gays?
I guess Laurie could count his own preaching among that which is false.
Sigh… and I’m a geologist.
But the world IS about to end Warren, hadn’t you heard?
Judgment Day
I guess Laurie could count his own preaching among that which is false.
Sigh… and I’m a geologist.
But the world IS about to end Warren, hadn’t you heard?
Judgment Day
Revelation 2-3.
The world will end – someday. Could be today, tomorrow or on any other day. Let God handle those worries.
I don’t know if the world is going to end and i don’t rely on NASA to tell me that but i know and i know that the spirit is speaking to the Church. Let those who have ears hear…
I don’t know if the world is going to end and i don’t rely on NASA to tell me that but i know and i know that the spirit is speaking to the Church. Let those who have ears hear…