Is Chile Earthquake a Sign?

I don’t know – and I agree with Herodotus that these types of events might appear to be accelerating mostly because we now are made aware of ALL of them.

I do care – to a degree and in my own way, but I just don’t know. I am certain, however, that the location had NOTHING to do with the Chilean people’s general righteousness – that the location was not chosen by God as a punishment of any kind.

Dash:

“… the preliminary engineering plans for the prophesied temple on Adam-Ondi-Ahman were recently drawn up and are sitting in some vault somewhere in SLC.”

Dash, forgive but I have to ask, is that the same vault the documents Mr. Hoffman sold to the church ended up in for safe keeping? I’m not against calling our faith community, “Latter-day Saints.” As one old and gray, there is a certain pleasure (nix that word), “security” in knowing the ending up scene is not far off. One might just live to see it . However, as a rather pragmatic kind of guy, I can’t but wonder how long the dispensation title, “Latter-day,” is numerically. We are getting close to two hundred years since the church was organized. I wonder sometimes (don’t drink or do drugs), if in the future it might be necessary as some point to add yet another word to our official church title (not reorganized, perfected, fundamentalist, none of those). No I’m thinking of a “latter” latter-day Saint church.

I have lived in California for seventy years. In that time, I have experienced five major earthquakes, from 5.9 to 7.6 on the Richter scale. All scared me somewhat, especially as a child. Worst damage to home, less than a thousand dollars in the Whittier quake. I wasn’t born when my dad & siblings went through the Long Beach disaster of March 1933. Poor building conditions brought down every school in town. My aunt was on lunch break in downtown LB when a stranger, a sailor, grabbed her and pulled into the center of Pine Avenue. She was ready to kick him hard, when she realized she could no long stand, as windows exploded & buildings collapsed (120 died). Quakes have been around for a long time. I think they will continue to give us to something to tell our grandkids about… but that’s just me.

I’m surprised at the number of “I don’t care” votes! How can someone not care about the end of the world? I too think the Chile quake is nothing more than natural processes within the earth, and not a sign, but surely the question should draw some kind of opinion and not apathy!

I think nature is often taken out of context in this regard. The earthquake is definitely a sign — that the earth’s crust is unstable!

I don’t necessarily see “the end of the world” as a physical end, and for that matter I don’t think that’s what we’re taught in church (will it not continue on in the millennium?). It’s really more of a new beginning, a time of transformation, a time when “Christ will come in power and glory.” Personally, I can’t say for sure (obviously) whether that will be a literal physical coming of Christ in body – or if it will be the power of his teachings finally transforming the world (with the “great destruction” of selfishness and hate). Sometimes it takes physical disasters to help unite people, so I don’t doubt in the least that these types of events help prepare the way for his coming.

I voted yes. I believe the teachings that it is a sign, I just don’t clearly understand the details of what that actually means. My “yes” probably doesn’t mean to me what most people would assume it’s supposed to mean, but that’s okay. It’s still a yes to me.

What Brian said. Oh, and I voted yes. So I guess Brian can have half of my yes vote if he will give me half of his no vote.

Mmm. Hmm. Some original thoughts? OK, I think all of life is a sign. We go through life “as a dream” far too readily. Earthquakes, all disasters, vacations, births, and deaths are all signs to us to awaken us from our sleep and really live!

I continue to agree with Brother McConkie that, for the faithful, the Second Coming of Christ is always within their lifetime. To me, that’s a potentially powerful thought to ponder.