Comment by thhoooowww0101
5 months ago
I don't understand two things:
1. Why do some humans want to "hasten the coming of Christ’s return"?
2. Why do some humans think that an all powerful God needs their help to do what he wants to do?
5 months ago
I don't understand two things:
1. Why do some humans want to "hasten the coming of Christ’s return"?
2. Why do some humans think that an all powerful God needs their help to do what he wants to do?
1. This is usually linked to dispensationalist theology which results in the rapture of the faithful in Christ. 2. Very few do. Most think God allows His creatures to participate in His plans and is pleased when do so in a virtuous way.
The Bible, which Christians believe to be divinely inspired or even divinely authored, instructs humans to do this in 2 Peter 3:12.
How does it do that? It just says to keep calm and carry on because hecklers will not understand that God wants everyone to have a chance. Or am I missing context, it's been a couple of years since I've been in church(and a reformed protestant one at that)
A number of translations specifically say "hastening the coming of the day of God" (https://www.biblegateway.com/verse/en/2%20Peter%203%3A12). You may have one of the ones that doesn't; there's an underlying dispute about the meaning of the Greek verb σπεύδω that I'm not qualified to weigh in on.
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