Re: Resource conservation and Christ's return

>>A pre-millennium Newsweek poll conducted in 1999 reported, "A
significant
44% of the population thinks that Jesus Christ will likely return to
Earth
during the first half of the next century [that's now THIS century]. One
in
five (22%) says Christ will definitely return, a view held by 40% of
African Americans and more than one-third of white evangelical
Protestants.">>

Wow! About all I can say is that those who do not study history are
likely to go through it again.

On the last sentence, to hold that Christ will "definitely" return is
sort of a basic Xtian creedal statement. To put that return in a time
frame, even with the caveat "likely," is to claim more than seems
reasonable.

>>The basic question for me is how we as believers and scientists
reconcile
the doctrine of the imminent corporeal return of Christ with the idea of
environmental conservation for the long term? >>

Since we do not know the "when," anymore than we know the date of our own
deaths, it seems to be the best policy to plan for the long term.

Burgy

www.burgy.50megs.com/shadows.htm (Into the Shadows)

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Received on Tue Dec 16 13:46:47 2003