Another prediction of Christ’s return fails

[SLD]

Yup. Billy Graham is dead. He predicted back in the 40’s that Christ would return in his lifetime. Took a long time for this prediction to come untrue. But it did today.

SLD

 

[ideologyhunter]

35% of America (the Trumpanzees) disagree with you.

 

[Ramaraksha]

Yup. Billy Graham is dead. He predicted back in the 40’s that Christ would return in his lifetime. Took a long time for this prediction to come untrue. But it did today.
SLD

God made in the image of the local King/Strong man - that was the life then when these religions were born & that is what they used. A King like God sits on his throne in the heavens, rewards his loyal subjects/slaves(believers get heaven) and punishes the rest(unbelievers get hell). Simple primitive ideas that sadly we still blindly follow today

Life was pretty bad then & the one man who could give the people a modicum of a good life was the powerful king. The knight in shining armor coming to save the damsels in distress - that was how life was

Again, it amazes me that when it comes to religion we have barely moved - we remain stuck in time, backward - still waiting for the Knight in Shining armor to come save us or of course, we get to go to his kingdom where he will keep us in nice comfort

God = our ticket to the easy good life

 

[Learner]

God = our ticket to the easy good life

But until then, just do the best you can in the hard harsh world.

 

[ideologyhunter]

BTW, just did a quick Google search on Billy's end-times musings. What jumped up were a couple of nonspecific references where Graham is quoting the 'No one knows the hour' scripture. Where is the 1940s quote mentioned in the OP? (His daughter -- I think her name is Anne -- is quoted as saying she believes she will live to see Jesus return.) I'm not doubting the OP, just don't see it in the main crop of Google results.

 

[James Brown]

God = our ticket to the easy good life

But until then, just do the best you can in the hard harsh world.

On the face of it, that's good advice. Unfortunately, for many who are waiting for the rapture, "do the best you can" means "hunker down and wait it out." And that attitude tends to create inaction and apathy, which doesn't do a thing to alleviate the trails of this hard harsh world.

"There is far too much work to be done in this world to spend one minute worrying about the next."

 

[T.G.G. Moogly]

BTW, just did a quick Google search on Billy's end-times musings. What jumped up were a couple of nonspecific references where Graham is quoting the 'No one knows the hour' scripture. Where is the 1940s quote mentioned in the OP? (His daughter -- I think her name is Anne -- is quoted as saying she believes she will live to see Jesus return.) I'm not doubting the OP, just don't see it in the main crop of Google results.

There are millions of gullible assholes who will open up their wallets to hear this. Graham wasn't stupid.

 

[southernhybrid]

http://www.wnd.com/2013/10/billy-graham-sounds-alarm-for-2nd-coming/

Graham said he now has a burden for “sounding the alarm for humanity to repent and turn from their sin … just as Noah did in ancient days.”

“God keeps his promises, and this is why we can be sure that the return of Christ is near,” Graham said. “Scripture tells us that there will be signs pointing toward the return of the Lord. I believe all these signs are evident today.”

The evangelistic outreach and book come as a number of major evangelists – Graham, his son Franklin Graham, Reinhard Bonnke, Greg Laurie, Luis Palau, Banning Liebscher and others – are turning their attention toward America in the hope of helping ignite what Graham calls an end-times “great spiritual awakening.”

The above was from 2013, so you could say that he predicted the rapture would happen in his lifetime, if you think that five years means soon. But we never really know what soon means since Jesus supposedly said he would come back quickly. I was dragged to the Billy Graham Crusades in New York City when I was a very young child and I think he was predicting this way back then in the 1950s. Soon sure is a long time in the fantasy world of Jesus followers.

I simply think that all this rapture nonsense is just one more attempt at denying death. If you are raptured up then you never have to face death. No. You go straight up to the big guy's home in the sky and all you have to do is repent to get the ticket to heaven. What a great deal!

 

[Jobar]

My favorite was Harold Camping's prediction of May 21, 2011. Why? Well, as I put it in this SC thread-

Well this is a fine pass. It appears that May 21, the third weekend in May when I normally have my yearly gathering of the alumni of Internet Infidels and other unbelievers, is going to be the end of the world.

Darn. Don't you just hate it when that happens?



I suppose we'll just have to wing it, when the sky turns red, and stars start falling out of the sky. At least I can feel confident that none of my guests will suddenly disappear, huh?

For those who are new here, you can find out about the one last year here, and the one in 2009 (with links to ones before that) here.

As the date approaches, we'll firm up who brings what, and I'll post directions on how to get here for anyone who hasn't attended in the past. Presuming you aren't at home looking forward to the Rapture, that is.

That was a mighty fine party, and no sign of Raptured Christians.

 

[lpetrich]

Seems like Jesus Christ is very lazy.