the end is the beginning is the end

Earthquakes, tsunamis, nuclear meltdowns, economic collapse, political uprisings the list goes on.

As earth-shaking catastrophe and widespread hysteria arise over what some consider as signs-of-the-times. We are brought face to face with the awareness of our own mortality and of our own fear of the unknown. But more importantly fear of what we perceive as the end of all things.

Some call this the eschaton, a term concerned with what are believed to be the final events in history: the ultimate destiny of humanity –the end of the world because belief in an absolute end to all things runs universally in all existing cultures.

Curiously what we often forget is that in all these presentations of ending the world with a big bang, we often forget that it is not actually the end. Read more >>>

No one will be 'Left Behind'

Its about time that people like Barbara R. Rossing, who are blessedly brave enough to speak against this false and abusive theology of last things. This is good and challenging reading for people who like me have struggled with the nature of such a violent, discriminating and triumphlist eschatology that has yoked so many Evangelical Christians since it was formally articulated by Darby and Scofield. This is a welcomed publication that in a way helps ease out my cringing whenever I'd see people somewhat rejoicing over global catastrophe because they see it as signs of the times, without ever thinking that the victims of those catastrophes are people just like them.

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The Kingdom of Heaven and the world to come

Christianity regards salvation as liberation from the bondage of sin and re-establishing a personal communion with God. Christians hold that Jesus is the source of salvation and faith in his saving power is of particular importance is it determines the ‘way, truth and life’ that leads those who believe Him into communion of God.

John’s Gospel as Eschathon

The word Eschatology often invokes fear as it is often associated with the mystic symbolism of John’s apocalyptic visions of the end of the world in the Book of Revelations.

However I would like to suggest a more, well thought-of insight on eschatology that is – not merely looking at it as the doctrine of last things, or the end times, but also as the rebirth of creation as instituted by Jesus and continued by his disciples, a historical phenomenon, based on N.S. Fujita’s observation on the Gospel of John’s distinctive: