Posted: Jun 29, 2019 8:32 pm
Svartalf wrote:You forget the Terror of year 1000, and the times of the Great Plague of 1349... both times they definitely thought it was the end times.
Wikipedia has a list of some more deceivers who made or are still making false claims about the second coming of the fiction character called Jesus.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictions_and_claims_for_the_Second_Coming_of_Christ
Now, it must be noted that in supposed Christian writings of antiquity, outside the NT, the authors did not refer to themselves as CHRESTIAN and also did not identifyl people who believed the Jesus Christ story as CHRESTIANS.
Ignatius Epistle to the Ephesians -- " The tree is made manifest by its fruit; so those that profess themselves to be Christians shall be recognised by their conduct".
Clement First Epistle --" Let your children be partakers of true Christian training".
Justin's First Apology ---"For all are called Christians".
The story in Acts about believers in the Jesus Christ story were called Chrestians is unsupported by Christians writers and was fabricated because there was no Jesus Christ and no followers of him at least up to the beginning of the 2nd century.