A lot has been written, and a lot more has been speculated, about the significance of solar eclipses, and specifically, the eclipse looming on Monday, April 8.
Many perceive it as a sign in the heavens, perhaps linked to the biblical “second coming” of Christ, and the end of the age.
But an article by Eric Vanden Eykel, an associate professor of religious studies at Ferrum College and a self-described “scholar of early Christian literature,” suggests the Bible itself debunks that, as the authors writing about such events “share a sense that the timing of ‘the end’ is ultimately mysterious and unknowable.”
That means, he explains, “attempting to predict such timing by means of things like eclipses is, at the very least, not terribly ‘biblical.'”
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