Inevitability of Doomsday and Irrationality of Faith in Jesus Christ

The way some Christians tell it, ‘Doomsday’, or ‘Armageddon’, or whatever else you choose to call events that lead to demise of life on earth is inevitable.

Let us refer to Christians who believe in inevitability of Doomsday, ‘Doomsday Christians’, and let us refer to inevitability of Doomsday as ‘Doomsday Theology’.

In context of theology of Doomsday Christians, Doomsday or Armageddon ushers in the Second Coming of Jesus Christ who saves only those who believe in Him, then destroys evil people and this current earth.

The problem with Doomsday Theology resides in it’s supposed inevitability. If Doomsday is inevitable, there must always be evil people on earth, and evil people always must outnumber those who do what is right and good.

If evil people always must outnumber those who are good, preaching by Christians is not expected to be very successful, with outcome that while Jesus’ sacrifice would save some people, it could not save the earth itself, hence inevitability of Doomsday.

Here right away, however, we run into a contradiction, for it is Jesus Himself, and His foremost Apostles, Apostles Paul and John who declare as follows (words in brackets mine).

And I, if I may be lifted up from the earth…