Shouldn't Christ be here by now...?

[_Hoops]

piglet, more accurately.

[_Some Schmo]

piglet, more accurately.

There we go. You're nothing if not trite.

[_bcspace]

Just to be clear: the op is an LDS position (I'm assuming), but not a mc position.

It's not an LDS position that he has to come now.

[_jon]

Just to be clear: the op is an LDS position (I'm assuming), but not a mc position.

It's not an LDS position that he has to come now.

I sometimes wonder if you have ever attended an LDS Church, or even know what the religion teaches.

What do you think the LDS position is?
(keeping in mind that the LDS canonised position is that Adam happened 4,000bc and that the D&C states Christ is coming at the start of the seventh thousand year period from the time of Adam)

[_keithb]

From my experience, this is one of those subjects that doesn't get much press in church (kind of like the New Jerusalem stuff in the AoF). I don't think most people want to talk about the fact that Jesus hasn't come back, even though several sources keep claiming that he is coming in this generation, or some such nonsense.

Besides which, it doesn't make for good PR to talk about the apocalyptic end of the world and how Jesus -- nice guy that he is -- intends to drown, burn, and kill most of the world's population (kind of like the Flood of Noah?). For some reason, talking about things like that just doesn't get people into the pews anymore. Maybe humanity is evolving past the point where they feel like they need a God to bully them for all eternity?

[_sock puppet]

The day is nigh at hand, even at our very doorstep..... and has been for 200+ years.

BUT, remember that 200 years is just a blink of an eye for God!

How many times can he blink in a nigh?

[_sunstoned]

All I know is that I was told in MIA (yes, I'm old) over and over again that I was part of the chosen generation. You know, the one that would be around to help usher in the second coming. They even had a musical about it. Man I was stoked to be part of the chosen generation. Well now my kids are having kids and where is Jesus? I feel ripped off.

[Guest]

What is the official apologetic explanation for His tardiness?

According to Christianity I have the authority to speak for and on the behalf of Mormonism when I say...

I don't know when Jesus is coming back.

Reference The Offspring Video 'You're Gunna Go Far Kid' although not entirely accurate.

To quote a fellow Noble Laureate; You cannot summarize a human life in a 2 hour period or any length of time for that matter.

I won the Alfred Nobel Award. I answered the question. God told me the answer. Long story short the Mormon Church pushed the public scrutiny of the person who had become the trustee of the prize money (which I declined) All because the nature of the award proved the Mormon Endowment Ceremony to be a bunch of B.S.

Take the Bible verse literally, I'm here to perform the duty of ending the Mormon faith.

[_Buffalo]

The day is nigh at hand, even at our very doorstep..... and has been for 200+ years.

BUT, remember that 200 years is just a blink of an eye for God!

How many times can he blink in a nigh?

If 200 years is a blink of an eye for him, that explains why God doesn't answer prayers. They whiz by too fast for his timeline.

[_Nightlion]

sigh
This site should have a data base where everyone could easily look up Questions Nightlion Has Already Answered since nobody can retain this stuff in their decrepit, natural, enemy of God, carnal, sensual and devilish mind.

The seven thousand years are reckoned of its temporal existence. There was a meridian of time while the earth was suspended from 'formal' temporal existence when Emanuel or God was with us. This adds to the imprecise LDS timeline of thinking that the century marks are spot on to begin with at least thirty-three years. You know, the number of years that Jesus lived on earth.

With the recent unfolding of The Apocalrock to test the world to see how they can handle God's actual intervention, revealing The Book of Jesus Christ written across the face of a great 'lifted up' mountain that confronts the fallen and misbegotten Holy Priesthood of the LDS Church, which Apocalrock manifests miracle after miracle of God's handiwork, proving (a test, a test is coming) that this generation would have mocked Christ if they had lived amongst the Jews in the days of his earthly ministry, the same as they refuse to see The Apocalrock and will not respect that it is a miracle and a fulfillment of promises made to the fathers and that it portends that Jesus' second coming is at the doors. Yeah, verily the time is at hand.

Rev. 18: 4
4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.