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Originally posted by JiriHrdina@Jun 14 2005, 04:51 PM
Well this is an interesting little thread that I've stayed out of until now.
"Word for Word:
Daniel 12:4
In the time of the end, people will increase their knowledge. Are we not the most knowledgeable society ever. And wouldn't you say that our knowledge has exponentially grown in the last 50 years specifically."
I would disagree with this. Think back to the early 1900s and how mankind advanced from say 1900-1930. Incredible knowledge gain. I would suggest that mankind has been increasing its knowledge exponentially since its birth.
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Except for the middle ages, where religious intolerance not only erased the knowledge and techonological advances of western human history (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Arab), but actively crushed and suppressed the advancement of knowledge, leading to rampant mysticism, superstition, and prohibited almost all secular writing.
Interestingly, the supposed burst of human invention and the rapid explosion of science in the 19th century is one of the reasons that Mormons cite for their faith being genuine as that is when their religion was started and god opened the heavens of knowledge upon the world or something like that.
Most of those websites, books, etc. that all cry "end times are near!!!" are something I am quick to distrust. It's a lot of fear-mongering and propaganda and I think that Christians shouldn't concern themselves too much with it.