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Reasonable Faith Podcast

End-Times Paralysis

Reasonable Faith Podcast

William Lane Craig

Christianity, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2021

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Craig examines an atheist's contention that Christians act irresponsibly due to their view of end times.

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0:00.0

It's the end of the world as we know it.

0:04.6

It's the end of the world as we know it.

0:08.5

Bill with the pandemic and crazy election, I think that N Times Fever has been at a real

0:17.5

fever pitch.

0:18.5

I was reading an article the other day about how crazy society got and how crazy things

0:25.9

got when we turned to the year 1000.

0:29.8

People thought that millennia was the end of the world, that there was something significant

0:35.6

about the year 1000 and in mass people gave away all their money, they sold their goods,

0:44.6

they ruined the economy of villages and then boom, the year 1000 occurred and nothing

0:51.9

happened.

0:52.9

Kind of like a Y2K, if you remember all the fever about that as well.

0:59.2

So there are a couple of atheist bloggers who are complaining that we as believers don't

1:06.7

participate in society effectively.

1:10.2

In fact, we harm society because of our view on N Times.

1:16.4

If it's all going to end, there's no reason to pick up the trash, worry about the economy

1:22.7

or the ecology or any of that.

1:26.0

Have you run into this before Bill?

1:27.8

Oh, I've heard people make this accusation, but I think there are no facts to support it.

1:34.3

Let me read this, Yorne Paulson writes on the reasonable faith debunked Facebook page and

1:40.9

you may not have known that there was such a problem.

1:43.3

I did not.

1:44.3

He said, when some folks are in a holding position, awaiting the end of days, then those

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