【轉載】新約預言世界末日在耶穌或其門徒年代來臨
作者：誠惶誠恐
福音書所載的耶穌是一個以為世界末日就在他那世代來臨的「先知」，不但有這樣的預言，而且還不斷重複，可見耶穌是對末日是如何認真；還不斷舉出 ...
hellboy 發表於 2009/10/14 02:25 
【轉載】 「末世」風情畫︰世世代代都是「末世」
竟有耶教學者把由 1900 年起定為「末世教會時代」，真令人噴飯！耶教自耶穌就不斷認為世界末日在他們的年代來臨，不斷把末日推遲。耶穌如是、使徒如是、早期教父如是 (早期教父已大大推遲了末日來期，但仍造成他們蔑視科研的其中一個主要動因？——既然大地將滅，還研究大地作什？)、宗教改革時期如是。現在又有人說 1900-- 才是末世時代。
在早期的教會中，按照《新約全書》非常重要的學說，地球很快就毀滅了，隨後又出現了「新的天空和新的地球」，因此，天文學像其他科學分支一樣，被看作是無用的。在舊的天空和舊的地球很快被比它們好無數倍的東西取代，為什麼還要研究它們呢？……（(美)安德魯‧迪克森‧懷特《基督教世界科學與神學論戰史》p. 108）
「到了十一世紀，全歐洲 一般人都抱著最後的末日裁判將至的恐懼，並且相信世界將迅速歿落。靈魂的沉淪逼著人們 去做最不合理的事情。有些人把全部家私贈給教會，而終其生於長期的苦行之中；大多數 人 則把所有產業揮霍於縱欲之中。只有教會以幻覺惑人，收受各種贈遺而日臻富裕。」（黑格爾《歷史哲學》，420 頁）
「他（加爾文）提請人們注意，《聖經》年代學表明，宇宙的年齡不足 6000 歲，而且現在已經臨近末日了；」（安德魯‧迪克森‧懷特《基督教世界科學與神學論戰史》，15 頁）
Lutheran Church
The founder of the
Lutheran Church
was the reformer,
Martin Luther
(1483-1546 A.D.). According to one authority, Luther stated: "For my part, I am sure that the Day of Judgment is just around the corner. It doesn't matter that we don't know the precise day... perhaps someone else can figure it out. But it is certain that time is now at an end." (Reformation Principles and Practice: Essays in Honor of Arthur Geoffrey Dickens, p 169). Some take the position that this would not be a failed prophesy, because on the larger scale of time, "near" can be centuries in God's eyes. The reason for Martin Luther to say that the time is near, is to urge all people to examine themselves and ask themselves if they are sure they would be saved if the World were to end at any moment. However, his words indicate that he believed the end was near based on human understanding. Another work says: "In all of his [Luther's] work there was a sense of urgency for the time was short... the world was heading for Armageddon in the war with the Turk." (Luther's View of Church History, John M. Headley, Yale University Press, 1963, pp 13,14) Even after his death in 1546, Lutheran leaders kept up the claim of the nearness of the end. About the year 1584, A zealous Lutheran named Adam Nachenmoser wrote a large volume entitled
Prognosticum Theologicum
in which he predicted: "In 1590 the Gospel would be preached to all nations and a wonderful unity would be achieved. The last days would then be close at hand. Nachenmoser offered numerous conjectures about the date; 1635 seemed most likely." (Prophecy and Gnosis—Apocalypticism in the Wake of the Lutheran Reformation, Robin Bruce Barnes, p 64) Other date predictions followed but all failed.
（摘自
Unfulfilled historical predictions by Christians - Wikipedia）
Baptist Church
The
Baptist Church
also has a history of date and time predictions that have failed. In the early 1900s, the well-known Dr. Isaac M. Haldeman, pastor of the First Baptist Church in New York City, predicted that before the Jews returned to Palestine to establish a Jewish State--an event that happened in 1948--that the Antichrist would appear. Haldeman explained: 'The Scriptures teach that this man (the Antichrist) will be the prime factor in bringing the Jews back, as a body into their own land; that he will be the power that shall make Zionism a success; that through him the nationalism of the Jews shall be accomplished." There is still a group of believers that continue to believe that Haldeman was correct; and that in truth,
Adolf Hitler
was the antichrist predicted in the Bible (or perhaps one antichrist of many). They offer as "proof" the fact that the end result of WWII and the holocaust drove many Jews out of Europe to their new Israel. The fact that Hitler's Holocaust killed millions of Jewish believers (called "saints" in many Old Testiment prophectic passages) would correlate positively with several Bible predictions that antichrist will seek to murder multitudes of "saints." (The Signs of the Times, Isaac Massey Haldeman, pages 452, 453).
（摘自
Unfulfilled historical predictions by Christians - Wikipedia）
Roman Catholic Church
The members of the
Roman Catholic Church
also has a history of failed predictions about the "time of the end." For example,
Gregory I
who was pope from 590-604 A.D predicted that the end of the world was near in a letter that he wrote to
Ethelbert, a
European
monarch. He advised: "Further, we also wish Your Majesty to know, as we have learned from the words of Almighty God in Holy Scriptures, that the end of the present world is already near and that the unending Kingdom of the Saints is approaching. As this same end of the world is drawing nigh, many unusual things will happen—climatic changes, terrors from heaven... All these things are not to come in our own days, but they will follow upon our times." (Visions of the End—Apocalypticism in the Wake of the Lutheran Reformation, Bernard McGinn, p 64).
Cardinal Nicholas de Cusa
(1401-1464 A.D.) was " a cardinal of great learning...At the age of 23 Nicholas became a doctor of law, but when he lost his first lawsuit he left the profession of law for the study of
theology. Possessing a thorough knowledge of the Greek, Latin and Hebrew languages, and a rare degree of eloquence, soon attracted attention... was made a cardinal (1449 A.D.)" (Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
by McClintock and Strong, Volume II, p. 611). Cardinal de Cusa later held that the end of the world would come in the year 1700 A.D. Another Catholic scholar, Arnald of Villanova predicted that the Antichrist would appear in 1378 A.D. (Visions of The End, McGinn, p. 147)
（摘自
Unfulfilled historical predictions by Christians - Wikipedia）
二十世紀 70 年代，美國人
Hal Lindsey
寫的 "The Late Great Planet Earth" 預言 80 代末一場由蘇聯引發的核子戰爭揭開世界末日的帷幕。該書售出過千萬本。
二十世紀 80 年代，美國人
Edgar Whisenant
著 "88 Reasons Why the Rapture Will Be in 1988"（《1988 年被提的 88 個理由》，按「被提」乃指當世界末日到來，神審判世人時，「信主」的會被神帶到天國去）一書，由 World Bible Society 發行，總銷量起碼數百萬本。
更多末日預言(有部分包括少量其他宗教)︰
42 FAILED END-OF-THE-WORLD PREDICTIONS FOR THE YEAR 2000
http://www.religioustolerance.org/end_wrl10.htm
Unfulfilled historical predictions by Christians
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unf ... tions_by_Christians
End times
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End_times
| 和合本 | 實在告訴你們，這世代還沒有過去，這些事都要成就。 | | 現代中文譯本修訂本 | 你們要記住：這一代的人還沒有都去世以前，這一切事就要發生。 | | 新譯本 | 我實在告訴你們，這一切都必要發生，然後這世代才會過去。 | | 呂振中譯本 | 我實在告訴你們，這一代還沒過去，這一切事必定發生。 | | King James Version | Verily I say unto you,
This generation
shall not pass, till
all these things be fulfilled. | | New Century Version | I tell you the truth, all these things will happenwhile
the people of this time
are still living. | | The Message | Don't take this lightly. I'm not just saying this for some future generation, but for all of you.
This agecontinues until
all these things take place. | | Worldwide English (New Testament) | I tell you the truth.
The people who are living then, will not die before
all these things happen. | | New Life Version | For sure, I tell you,
the people of this day
will not pass away before
all these things have happened. | | Good News Translation | Remember that all these things will happen
beforethe people now living
have all died. |
傳教士、教徒當然是不甘心承認那些經文是預言世界末日是在耶穌或他的門徒的年代來臨，有解釋完全是意料中事。但那些解釋是否成立？我們可以完全抱開放態度，只要解釋合理、不違反語言習慣及邏輯常規，可以接受。但如果違例語言習慣及常理，則只有實事求是指出。例如開欄文章提到的《中文聖經啟導本》及筆名小灶的趙剛說 [太 16:28] 乃預表六天便發生的登山變像明顯是狡辯，無法成立（請看原文的分析）。
現在舉一個例子，鍾鵬章牧師在《跟隨基督的腳蹤行 - 第一百三十七課 - 末期的事(三)》這樣解釋 [太 24:34]：「『。。這世代還沒有過去，這些事都要成就。』-- 這里不是說，末期的事和基督再來都要在新約門徒的世代里成就，而是說，在那世代，人們就可以看見所有末期的跡象，如地震、假基督、逼迫、傳福音。。那是一個生根、發芽的世代，還不是開花、結果的時候。」他說「在那世代」的人「可以看見所有末期的跡象」然後舉幾個例子，舉到「傳福音」便停下來，作出結論：「那是一個生根、發芽的世代，還不是開花、結果的時候」，但他所舉的例子有意無意遺漏了「人子，有能力，有大榮耀，駕著天上的雲降臨」，人子降臨已經是世界末日的開花、結果的時候！他這種斷章取義飾經只是在迴避問題。
除了像這裡的指鹿為馬法之外，鍾鵬章牧師的飾經很擅長用含糊其詞、移花接木、移形換影、混水摸魚等手法。例如鍾鵬章牧師在《跟隨使徒的腳蹤行 - 第五十課 - 保羅抵達羅馬》這樣為 [可 16:15-18] 開脫：「問題是：我們可以把這起事件當作是給后人樹立規范嗎？當然不可以，我還沒有聽到在神跡布道會里，有人故意給毒蛇咬而得到醫治的……」鍾大牧師完全沒有解釋那幾句經文，直接了當用現代人的行為去移花接木，冒充經文意思，佯裝釋經，實質飾經。按照這邏輯，如有某些用香爐灰神茶治病的神棍，過一段時間已無人再上當，豈不也可以這樣開脫：「當然不是有『神茶可治病』之意，我還沒有聽到還有人喝神茶不去看醫生﹗」
又例如回應有關 [提前 2:12-14] 經文的性別歧視含意的質疑，他說 ：「但也有人說，保羅在13 - 14節引用亞當和夏娃的例子，似乎把不允許女人講道當作是一種絕對性的說法。我個人認為，今天的姐妹只要在台上不囂張，承認男人是自己的頭，不轄管男人，我們沒有理由禁止她們證道禱告。不知大家以為然否？」(http://www.pcchong.com/1Timothy/1Tim8.htm）他完全沒有解釋，他只是以他個人認為現在教會的做法去冒充經文的意思，佯裝釋經，實質飾經。十九世還沒有女人可以在教會講道，二十世紀才隨著世俗觀念的轉變，漸漸有女性可講道，按照他的邏輯，是否在十九世或以前「不許女人講道」就是「不許女人講道」的意思，之後就是「準許女人講道」的意思？！像他混水摸魚得那麼粗糙，竟然還會有人聽他的。
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