stahrwe wrote:
Popularity is not a measure of the fittness of Christianity. Prophecy says that as the end times near there will be a great falling away. A world 'church' will emerge which is an amalgum of all religions. Only a remnant of true Christianity will remain. The fact that true Christainity is nearly gone does not mean that it is not the fittest. That is what I mean.

But yes, in Darwinian terms (even though Darwin never used the phrase "survival of the fittest") "fittest" is the form most likely to survive. It doesn't confer any value, just a kind of brute force. I do have to say that the end you see as so terrible seems to me a welcome development.

DWill wrote:

stahrwe wrote:
Popularity is not a measure of the fittness of Christianity. Prophecy says that as the end times near there will be a great falling away. A world 'church' will emerge which is an amalgum of all religions. Only a remnant of true Christianity will remain. The fact that true Christainity is nearly gone does not mean that it is not the fittest. That is what I mean.

But yes, in Darwinian terms (even though Darwin never used the phrase "survival of the fittest") "fittest" is the form most likely to survive. It doesn't confer any value, just a kind of brute force. I do have to say that the end you see as so terrible seems to me a welcome development.

The stage I described was only an intermediate step, it will be followed by every everyone bowing and acknowledging that Jesus is Lord when He reveals Himself, sorry.

If you're still a member of Booktalk when that date comes and goes, I'd very much like to hear your explanation as to why it didn't happen. Breaking the pinata that is.

Interbane wrote:If you're still a member of Booktalk when that date comes and goes, I'd very much like to hear your explanation as to why it didn't happen. Breaking the pinata that is.

Your reference to pinata lost me.
As for the date, don't know when that date will be.

Bunches of mentally immature people greedily awaiting something they greatly desire. That's the image the rapture brings to mind every time I hear of it.

This is a tangent, I don't mean to barb you into making a response. Sorry Dwill.

Back to the subject, only after Jesus returns with the "true" religion resurface as the fittest? This is prophecy and is non-sequitur. This is one of the problems with bringing mysticism into a rational discussion, you abandon logic. Please stick to what is real in these discussions. There may be other avenues of logical approach to show that those churches which are currently most popular will not in the future be the fittest. But for now, they are.