The peace of an atheist may last for a day, but the peace of a saved theist will last forever.
This will prove especially ironic after science conquers death.
Of course, we will never know it for sure... at least not until somebody dies.
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EDIT: There was a time when I thought that it was unfair of God to base His decision to allow everyone to die, on the sin of only two people (Adam and Eve - they didn't believe God). But now I see (by some of the adamant unbelievers in this forum) that we would have been down the tubes anyway.
You should check out the book of Enoch (
it's here, not in the bible). It talks about why humans got so out of control, that God sent a flood to wash most away.
Book of Enoch might be interesting. But Graham Hancock has provided the answer, even though he doesn't realize he has done so.
Youtube search on "Graham Hancock" and watch a few hours of his videos. He shows that modern archaeology has found Atlantis - the worldwide trade organization that was probably a one-world government. The thing that he doesn't say is that Atlantis was destroyed by the Great Flood of Noah's day. Of interest is his investigation of Gobekli Tepe, in Turkey.
Another thing that Hancock found is that those people were deep into drug use. But their drug use was of a different kind. It was a method to open themselves up to what we would call the spirits of demons. The whole spirit world operates in a different way for different reasons than we expect or understand. Part of it provides people access to the kind of thinking that helps them develop technology. Part of it turns people away from God.
God is protecting us by limiting drug use, even though the people He is using to do it don't realize that they are being used by God. When we get far enough into drug use again, that we call the devil back up from the abyss, shortly after that, Jesus will return. Remember, Jesus said, "As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the
[second] coming of the Son of Man."
I would trust Enoch over Graham Hancock. Enoch is referenced by other people in the bible, and also has several verses that say about the same thing as other verses in the bible. I won't say there isn't an Atlantis, there most likely was.
"Part of it provides people access to the kind of thinking that helps them develop technology. Part of it turns people away from God."
I don't know if you're trying to say using drugs to develop technology is good or bad here. It seems like you think it's ok in some ways. Nothing good can come from using psychotropic drugs, ever. It opens you up to demons.
Proverbs 20:1
Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, and whoever is led astray by it is not wise.Proverbs 23:29-35
Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaining? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes? Those who tarry long over wine; those who go to try mixed wine. Do not look at wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly. In the end it bites like a serpent and stings like an adder. Your eyes will see strange things, and your heart utter perverse things.Those lines are just for wine and beer, psych drugs are much worse.
Enoch clearly says that the demons brought in technology and tools, that they didn't have back then. Things like mirrors, and makeup, and swords. You can see mirrors and makeup would lead to pride or feeling bad about appearance. Swords would be used to hurt each other. They brought items (technology at the time) that brought more sin and pain. When the humans were simple, they were happy. Ignorance is bliss. Technology corrupted them. The more technology we have as a human race, the more we sin. I'm not saying technology is all bad, and people should stop using it. I'm just saying in general, it's corrupted us over time.
The thing that I am saying is, how do we go from a world that is reasonably stable to one that God would destroy? How do we go from stability to such wickedness that Jesus would predict, "As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man?" Worldly people and atheists don't place any strength in the Bible, even if they happen to read it. If they read the Book of Enoch, they consider it fictional.
No. The way we go to a bad world is through sinning. The way we go to a world that God would destroy is through drugs - demon contact. Without knowing it, Graham Hancock and a few others have shown why it happened to the world of Noah's day, Atlantis.
The timing of Hancock and other archaeologists is off. They think it happened 12,500 years ago, but because of changes in the way physics operates - Rupert Sheldrake shows this - we don't know exactly when it happened. The Bible suggests about 5,000 years ago. But the Bible isn't to be used for showing exact things like the direct times of the past... at least not in everything.
In other words, Graham Hancock is corroborating the basic things that Enoch wrote.
Drugs cause people to contact demons for technology. Contacting demons isn't something like one does when he talks to another person on the phone. Demon contact includes waking up parts of the brain in such a way that one can, at times, calculate scientific phenomenon in ways that he could never think without the drugs. When the people of early earth did it, they moved away from God and into trusting themselves. This is something God did not allow back then, and will not allow in the future.
We are gradually moving into a time when the world will be ripe for another destruction from God like the flood. But this time Jesus will return and straighten things out permanently. There's no getting around it.
If you see a formal opening of the room of knowledge under the left(?) front paw of the Sphinx - a thing that the Egyptian government is not currently allowing - you will know that the knowledge of the ancients - the things that brought their destruction down on them in the Great Flood - are about to be revealed to mankind again. Mankind thinks that it can manage such knowledge. But they can't. It will only prove to destroy us again, like it did the first time... this time through the returning of Jesus.