Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site psivax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!psivax!friesen From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen) Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Re: Nuclear war and Providence Message-ID: <160@psivax.UUCP> Date: Tue, 27-Nov-84 16:34:29 EST Article-I.D.: psivax.160 Posted: Tue Nov 27 16:34:29 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 30-Nov-84 08:35:45 EST References: <5076@duke.UUCP> Reply-To: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley friesen) Organization: Pacesetter Systems Inc., Sylmar, CA Lines: 14 Summary: In article <5076@duke.UUCP> nlt@duke.UUCP (N. L. Tinkham) writes: > > I, too, have heard from fellow Christians arguments to the effect that >there's no sense worrying about a nuclear war since God wouldn't let >us do that to ourselves. Some, having drawn up detailed charts >diagramming the end of the world, will point out that there's no nuclear >war on their particular chart and thus nuclear war is impossible. Have any of them considered that the Four Horsemen may represent a nuclear war? The massive scale and types of destruction described in relation to them is entirely consistant with a nuclear war. This is the problem with prophecy, it is impossible to interpret until *after* the fact. As a Christian I simply admit I do not understand the Apocalypse well enough to make any hard claims about what is to come.