What does the Bible say about the world ending?

Answer 1

God is eternal, in that he has always been and will always be and currently is. He created time: "In the Beginning [of time]..." and then the "heavens and the earth." The earth being the known universe and the heavens being the unseen world where God inhabits, or rather, where it inhabits God, as God is larger than the heavens. He created it out of nothing, or rather, out of Himself, by his Word alone. He said it, it happened. This is not far-fetched at all, if one has a correct view of God. You could say he was wholly wise and wholly powerful, but that could not begin to describe it Him, because he is infinte and eternal, everything said about Him is less than what He truly is. So, as you can see, speaking something, and everything, into existence is a small thing. This is easy for the Christian to believe because for the Christian, at conversion, the Ressurection of Christ becomes fact, and the Spirit of God bears witness to that fact within them constantly, according to The Bible and also to two thousand years of Christian experience. It is like a light bulb on in my room, I know if it's on, there is power coming from somewhere. This is logically sound in the sense that if something had always come from something than the universe would be eternal. But, according to most scientists, and Christians, this is untrue, the universe is not eternal. So, if it is not eternal it would have had to come from nothing, that is, in the way of matter. Matter must come from other matter or from nothing. We explain that matter was "made out of nothing by God, by the power of his Word." Once again, not at all difficult to accept if you accept the Christian picture of God as "Almighty."

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1In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters... And the evening and the morning were the first day. 6And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. 7And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. 8And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day. 9And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. 10And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.

6By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth. 7He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses... 9For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast.

Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.

Answer 2

The Christian view of how the world began is based on the Book of Genesis in the Old Testament. However, there are two creation stories in Genesis: (1) verses 1:1 to 2:4a; (2) 2:4b to 2:22. The first of these (1:1-2:4a) is recognised by scholars as the work of the Priestly (P) source, based on a Mesopotamian myth encountered by the Jews in Babylon. So, the creation account that has the world created in six days, which every Christian learns as a child, did not even exist prior to the sixth century BCE. The second account (2:4b-2:22) predated the other in Judaism but was never considered important, except for the creation of Adam, later Eve. A summary follows, in order to show that there really are two creation accounts in Genesis::

In Genesis 1:1 to 2:4a ( up to first sentence of 2:4) there was a pre-existing watery chaos. The ocean was already present and a wind moved across the surface. The seas rested on the dry land, which appeared on day 3 when God gathered the waters together. The order of creation was as follows:

(Day 1) light (day);

(2) the firmament, which was believed to separate the waters of the heavens from the lower waters;

(3) By gathering the lower waters in one place the land appeared. Grasses and trees;

(4) sun; moon and stars - the lights in the firmament;

(5) fish, land creatures and fowl;

(6) man, both male and female.

Notice that the light of day was not yet understood to have originated from the sun, although the sun was universally understood to rule the day. That is why it was possible to have grass and trees before the sun was created.

Genesis 2:4b to 2:15 says that there was pre-existing dry land, but God had yet to make it rain for plants to grow. A spring arose and God took some moist clay and made Adam. After Adam, he made the creatures of earth, one by one, then finally Eve.

Since there are two stories of creation in Genesis, Christianity generally prefers the version in Genesis 1:1 to 2:4a - creation of the world in six days. However, Christianity does use the second story for its literal understanding of the creation of Adam. So, Adam was created before all the creatures of the earth, but Eve was created last.

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Answer 3

The Bible says that the world was created by God in six days.

God also created the world by his word. He just said "Let there be light!" - it all came to pass and so it was.

This is what Paul wants us to understand when he wrote in the book of Hebrews:

"Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear." (Hebs.11.3)

Genesis 1.1: "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth".

This is as much detail as ever provided with reference to the earth as a whole; various specific parts of it are stated as being, or are implicitly created in the same undefined way.

Later verses of the same book and chapter provide a perhaps more useful story; to wit, "God said, 'let it be'." All that happened was the deity saying those words, and it - by such deity's power - coming into existence.

Answer 4

in the bible, revelations say that the moon will turn blood red, and the people who give their hearts to God will go to heaven to renew the earth with love. the people who do not will suffer from the seven angels' disasters of Gods anger, which are held in seven bowls. the first bowl will be poured by the first angel, which makes sores and boils appear all over the people who do not give their heart to God. the second bowl, poured by the second angel,will turn the oceans into blood, and kills all marine life. the third bowl will turn the streams and rivers into blood, killing all freshwater animals. the fourth angel will pour the fourth bowl onto the sun, and will be given the power to burn the nay- sayers with fire. they will be burned by the heat, and curse Gods name. the fifth angel will pour the fifth bowl on the throne of the beast, and turn it all into darkness, and the people will knaw on their tongues because of the pain. the sixth angel will pour it's bowl on the great river of Euphrates so that it will dry up, getting ready for the kings from the east to come. the seventh angel will pour out it's bowl, and storms, lightning, and horrible earthquakes will erupt on earth. the great city will be split into three parts, and the cities of the nations will be destroyed. and God will remember the sins of the people, and pour his great cup of anger on the great cities, And all the islands will run away; mountains will disappear. hailo weighing 100 pounds will fall to the earth upon the people, and they will curse God because the disaster was so great.

Answer 5

The origin of man is as follows ( in the Old Testament): Man was created with the dust of the Earth. The name Adam, comes from the Hebrew word for earth, adamah. God blew his breath into the dust and created the first man.

Answer 6

The two main biblical creation accounts are in Genesis 1:1-2:4a and in Genesis 2:4b-20.

In the first creation story, God spoke everything into existence over a period of six days, and then rested for a day. His first act of creation was to create the light of day and his last act of creation was to create man (both male and female).

In the second creation story, God did not just speak things into existence: he needed clay to create Adam and a rib to create Eve. In this story, God's first act of creation was to create Adam and his last act of creation was to create Eve.

In both creation stories, the basics were already there - the waters, the dry land, the wind and therefore the air. Many experts in Hebrew have carefully examined the texts and confirm that this is what they say. The biblical creations were not ex nihilo(out of nothing), and the world itself already existed. Scholars say the concept of creation

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Answer 7

In chronological order, John 1 goes all the way back and describes Genesis 1:1 onwards:
John 1:1-4New International Version (NIV)
The Word Became Flesh

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind.

Genesis 1 is an outline of the creation and renewal of the Earth (see Psalm 104:30). Genesis 2 gives more details of the special way God created man and then woman - His future potential children.

Answer 8

With the exception of mankind, we are only told what God made, not how He made it. That fact is in order to stress mankind's importance.

To make man, God fashioned the appropriate shape from dirt and breathed a soul into it (Genesis ch.2). He then made the first woman by fashioning her from a piece of the man's flesh (ibid).

Day by day, God created the universe and its contents (Genesis ch.1).God created the universe out of nothing (Exodus 20:11, Isaiah 40:28; Rashi commentary to Genesis 1:14; Maimonides' "Guide," 2:30).Note that the Torah, in describing the Creation, deliberately employs brevity and ellipsis, just as it does in many other topics. See the Talmud, Hagigah 11b.

• On day 1: God created the universe in general, light, and this Earth. The light was not the same as that of the sun. Rather, it was light that God created before the sun, and which emanated from a point in space without any physical source; like what we might term a "white hole."
  
• On day 2: God created the separation between the Earth and the upper atmosphere.
  
• On day 3: God separated the continents from the oceans, and created plants.
  
• On day 4: God created the sun, moon, and stars.
  
• On day 5: God created birds and fish.
  
• On day 6: God created animals and people.
  
• On day 7: God ceased creating, thereby creating the concept of rest.
  

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Answer 9

Mark's Gospel (chapter 13) tells us that the world would end during the lifetimes of those then still living, with Jesus prophesying the end of the world and his own return on clouds of glory. The references to the destruction that occurred in the late 60s gives an indication of when this was expected to occur. Jesus told his listeners that they would see the Temple destroyed, and the abomination of desolation, followed by the Son of man coming in clouds of glory, and that this would take place during their own generation.

By the 80s of the first century, when Matthew's Gospel was written, the return predicted in Mark's Gospel was becoming unlikely - the generation had already passed - and the author of Matthew had to change the emphasis away from an impending end of the world. While copying as faithfully as possible from Mark, he changed the position of the sentence about "this generation", relative to the destruction of the great buildings, so that it referred to something else altogether. He added, and emphasised, material where Jesus told the disciples that the end is not yet, and that no man knows when the end of the world will occur.

Luke was somewhat later than Matthew and even more clearly could not say that the destruction of Jerusalem meant the end of the world. This gospel talks about the end of the world as vaguely in the future, keeping the reference to this generation, but in reference to the need to preach the gospel.

Some see further prophecies of the end of the world and a future "Armageddon" in the Book of Revelation.

Answer 10

Another answer from our community:

It is unclear when the world will end, but God said that only The Father knows.