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☦️ Eastern Orthodox Christianity on 'Antichrist Is Coming' and 'The End Is Near' (Original Post) sprinkleeninow Jun 2024 OP
I have never understood, and probably never will, soldierant Jun 2024 #1
The Orthodox Church stresses an individual's end time moreso than the collective one. nt sprinkleeninow Jun 2024 #2
So does the Roman church. soldierant Jun 2024 #3
We know and believe He is coming back, The Parousia. sprinkleeninow Jun 2024 #4
We are to be prepared to meet Him whether individually or collectively always. sprinkleeninow Jun 2024 #5

soldierant

(7,999 posts)
1. I have never understood, and probably never will,
Mon Jun 17, 2024, 10:39 PM
Jun 2024

the obsession of some Christians with the "End Times." If the "End Times" donot happen to the world in your lifetime, your personal "end timed" will happen to you when you die. It seems to me that it's those end times that we need to be prepared for, not for some hypothetical "End Times" of world events.

soldierant

(7,999 posts)
3. So does the Roman church.
Tue Jun 18, 2024, 02:24 AM
Jun 2024

It's the evilgelicals who are so obsessed.

I probably should have also said that when Paul wrote about the rapture, he also said "therefore, comfort one another with these things." He did not say "therefore, scare Christians and nonChristians alike half to death with these things." They don't get that, either.

sprinkleeninow

(20,586 posts)
4. We know and believe He is coming back, The Parousia.
Tue Jun 18, 2024, 02:44 AM
Jun 2024

How exactly is really not preached/taught in a definite descriptive series of events as many of the non-Orthodox are known to do. Pre-trib, mid-trib, post-trib, on and on. Hung up on this. That's why the Orthodox Church is against Sola Scriptura.

sprinkleeninow

(20,586 posts)
5. We are to be prepared to meet Him whether individually or collectively always.
Tue Jun 18, 2024, 02:51 AM
Jun 2024
Having said that, I personally sense in my spirit that we may, yes, be witnessing an unfolding. But it is for us to be be prepared. "Look up, for our redemption draweth nigh."
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