Quote Originally Posted by bruiser
you are the type I guess that needs to touch,taste or feel in order to believe right!
Right. What other reliable methods of obtaining knowledge about the world are there?

can't you see...........you said" I would consider taking seriously the Bible's claim that the apocalypse will happen" If given proof?......................what the?..........apocalypse? dude,global warming never seen before since the dinasours!,until now!,war everywhere throughout the planet!,oil markets crashing econimacal insanity,famine like the world has never seen,red tie! the worlds fish supply getting messed up,polar ice caps melting at a alarming rate,ozone layer with a hole bigger then the state of alaska!,every little freak country with chemical,biologicail,nuke weapons,dieses,famine,earth quakes at a record high,sunamie's!terrorism,heat waves killed 5000 people in france last year! the whole world has changed more in the last 60 years then it did in the last several thousand! maybe longer,bird flu ecodemic,asian flu,aids!homosexuality on the rise,murders at a record high,did you know that there has been more conflicks spread throughout the world in the last 50 years then in our previouse history!,,,I could go on and on and on,,,,,,but you don't see any of what I mentioned,what does it take for one to see? then you say if I have proof then I will believe? dude get off the bong! ...........The Lord says there will be many in the last days who will not believe! even with all the signs around them!,if you won't believe the living,then you will never believe the dead!........................note: BABAYLON HAS FALLEN! ..........isn't it interesting that babaylon is undersiege right now by the americans? babaylon is now known as Iraq!!!!!.....................get ready I know I am....
I fail to see how bad things happening in the world is a sign that Judgment Day is imminent. I mean, it could just be bad things happening. Bad things have happened for a long time. I'm sure the people who lived through the bubonic plague thought the same thing you're thinking, and our lives are wonderful compared to theirs.

And sorry to burst your bubble, but Jesus and his followers all apparently predicted the Second Coming would happen in the 1st century:
http://www.jcnot4me.com/Items/theolo...prophecies.htm