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For the Mormons (or christians) of the board - what number is XX?

For example, "in 50 years, I'll be wrong". (in other words, i'll have to admit that we weren't in the 'latter days', and Jesus isn't coming - in fact, he probably doesn't exist).

Is it 50 years? 100 years? 1,000 years?

XX = 20
L = 50
C = 100
M = 1000

Some Schmo wrote:XX = 20
L = 50
C = 100
M = 1000

lol, good catch

No Mormons here are willing to lay it out there?

I'm just curious as to how long the "latter-day" phrase can be attached to the church. Surely there will come a point in time when Jesus hasn't come back to earth proclaiming the Mormon church to be true, when Mormons (and probably christians for that matter) will have to admit that he probably isn't coming back, and the 1800's shouldn't have been considered the 'latter-days'. If he hasn't returned to the earth by the year 2050 is that it? How about the year 2300? When does the LDS church (and christianity for that matter) lose credibility?

I figure something just shy of about another 2000 years would be sufficient.

I'm still trying to figure out why he left in the first place.

I lean towards partial preterism and supersessionism as the most interesting of answers with regard to the question, though.

Doctor Steuss wrote:I figure something just shy of about another 2000 years would be sufficient.

So, are you saying humanity will see another Human being flying reverse direction?

Let's say that the "Eleventh Hour" just barely started right ... now!

1 day == 1000 years in God's time
1000 / 24 = 41 years

But we better remember that Book of Mormon story where something similar happened (count down till we kill ya cause he did not come)

Apparently someone's ... "now" clock was a few minutes off, and Christ showed up a bit late, by that clock.

So ... lets add in a solid 50% error margin, just to be safe

2009 + 60 years = July 24th 2069

Doctor Steuss wrote:I figure something just shy of about another 2000 years would be sufficient.

For you or me?

I'm currently working on the "Become Righteous in Ten Years" plan. It used to be the "Become Righteous in One Week" plan back in my twenties. By my early thirties, it had become the "One Month" plan. At some point in my early forties, I think I made a bona fide "One Year" plan that never really panned out. Now that I'm staring down 50 in another year, I've become a little more realistic about my prospects. In fact, I'm starting to read up a lot on the mercy of God and other related topics.

by the way, I hope all is well with you and yours. Come visit sometime. I went down there, but I couldn't find you in the crowds. Besides, it's a lot cooler up here right now.

RockSlider wrote:Let's say that the "Eleventh Hour" just barely started right ... now!

1 day == 1000 years in God's time
1000 / 24 = 41 years

But we better remember that Book of Mormon story where something similar happened (count down till we kill ya cause he did not come)

Apparently someone's ... "now" clock was a few minutes off, and Christ showed up a bit late, by that clock.

So ... lets add in a solid 50% error margin, just to be safe

2009 + 60 years = July 24th 2069

Hey, Backslider, I'm still waiting on that list of my five most reprehensible moments here in The Great and Spacious Trailer Park™. I do sincerely hope you'll oblige me, especially because no one else has ever taken me up on the invitation. I mean, when you've developed such a reputation for wanton vulgarity as I have, you'd think it'd be a small matter to assemble some of those raucous moments into a more concise collection. You know, something I could package up and gift to my mom on Mother's Day. Remind her that I never could have done it without her instructive influence and expert tutelage all through my youth.