另外，〈彼得後書〉的真實性素成疑問，維基百科就說：「However, most scholars view the work as a pseudepigraphical one of the early 2nd century」（Second Epistle of Peter - Wikipedia）；天主教《牧靈聖經》之〈伯多祿後書〉的引言：「這是整部聖經中最晚的作品，可能寫在公元一百年左右，人們認為此信是伯多祿的第二封信，書中的三章討論當時教會所關心的三個問題：……－解釋為什麼基督還沒有回來。」《牧靈聖經》在其他部分的介紹，稱〈猶達書〉「實際的寫作時間大概是在第一世紀末」，稱〈若望福音〉「大約在公元95年」完成，〈伯多祿後書〉是「整部聖經中最晚的作品」，當然不可早於「公元一百年左右」了。這本書當然就不可能是彼得所寫的了。所以新教的《巴克萊雅各書彼得前後書注釋》大大方方坦承〈彼得後書〉不是彼得所寫，因為巴克萊認為〈彼得後書〉不早於二世紀中。但巴克萊為〈彼得後書〉辯護的辯詞十分好笑：「既然如此，這本書又是怎樣與彼得拉上關係的呢？說穿了，彼得的名字乃是被刻意加上的。現代人對這作法似乎有些不能接納，但在古代世界中，這卻是司空見慣，不足為怪的作法。栢拉圖的書信也並不是由他親筆所寫，乃是由他的一位學生代筆。」名字被刻意加上竟然可以同授權代筆類比，真沒話可說了。 作者: 誠惶誠恐 時間: 2007-5-17 17:20
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「......我實在告訴你們，這世代還沒有過去，這些事都要成就。」的原英文譯本為'Verily I say unto you, this generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.'。1979年由香港聖經公會所出的《現代中文譯本》，「這世代」為「這一代人」；現代英文譯本 (即American Bible Society所出的 Good News Bible/Today's English Version)，'this generation' 則為 'people now living'。
Lutheran Church
The founder of the Lutheran Church was the reformer, Martin Luther (1483-1546 A.D.). According to one authority, Luther stated: "For my part, I am sure that the Day of Judgment is just around the corner. It doesn't matter that we don't know the precise day... perhaps someone else can figure it out. But it is certain that time is now at an end." (Reformation Principles and Practice: Essays in Honor of Arthur Geoffrey Dickens, p 169). Some take the position that this would not be a failed prophesy, because on the larger scale of time, "near" can be centuries in God's eyes. The reason for Martin Luther to say that the time is near, is to urge all people to examine themselves and ask themselves if they are sure they would be saved if the World were to end at any moment. However, his words indicate that he believed the end was near based on human understanding. Another work says: "In all of his [Luther's] work there was a sense of urgency for the time was short... the world was heading for Armageddon in the war with the Turk." (Luther's View of Church History, John M. Headley, Yale University Press, 1963, pp 13,14) Even after his death in 1546, Lutheran leaders kept up the claim of the nearness of the end. About the year 1584, A zealous Lutheran named Adam Nachenmoser wrote a large volume entitled Prognosticum Theologicum in which he predicted: "In 1590 the Gospel would be preached to all nations and a wonderful unity would be achieved. The last days would then be close at hand. Nachenmoser offered numerous conjectures about the date; 1635 seemed most likely." (Prophecy and Gnosis—Apocalypticism in the Wake of the Lutheran Reformation, Robin Bruce Barnes, p 64) Other date predictions followed but all failed.
（摘自 Unfulfilled historical predictions by Christians - Wikipedia）
Baptist Church
The Baptist Church also has a history of date and time predictions that have failed. In the early 1900s, the well-known Dr. Isaac M. Haldeman, pastor of the First Baptist Church in New York City, predicted that before the Jews returned to Palestine to establish a Jewish State--an event that happened in 1948--that the Antichrist would appear. Haldeman explained: 'The Scriptures teach that this man (the Antichrist) will be the prime factor in bringing the Jews back, as a body into their own land; that he will be the power that shall make Zionism a success; that through him the nationalism of the Jews shall be accomplished." There is still a group of believers that continue to believe that Haldeman was correct; and that in truth, Adolf Hitler was the antichrist predicted in the Bible (or perhaps one antichrist of many). They offer as "proof" the fact that the end result of WWII and the holocaust drove many Jews out of Europe to their new Israel. The fact that Hitler's Holocaust killed millions of Jewish believers (called "saints" in many Old Testiment prophectic passages) would correlate positively with several Bible predictions that antichrist will seek to murder multitudes of "saints." (The Signs of the Times, Isaac Massey Haldeman, pages 452, 453).
（摘自 Unfulfilled historical predictions by Christians - Wikipedia）
Roman Catholic Church
The members of the Roman Catholic Church also has a history of failed predictions about the "time of the end." For example, Gregory I who was pope from 590-604 A.D predicted that the end of the world was near in a letter that he wrote to Ethelbert, a European monarch. He advised: "Further, we also wish Your Majesty to know, as we have learned from the words of Almighty God in Holy Scriptures, that the end of the present world is already near and that the unending Kingdom of the Saints is approaching. As this same end of the world is drawing nigh, many unusual things will happen—climatic changes, terrors from heaven... All these things are not to come in our own days, but they will follow upon our times." (Visions of the End—Apocalypticism in the Wake of the Lutheran Reformation, Bernard McGinn, p 64). Cardinal Nicholas de Cusa (1401-1464 A.D.) was " a cardinal of great learning...At the age of 23 Nicholas became a doctor of law, but when he lost his first lawsuit he left the profession of law for the study of theology. Possessing a thorough knowledge of the Greek, Latin and Hebrew languages, and a rare degree of eloquence, soon attracted attention... was made a cardinal (1449 A.D.)" (Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature by McClintock and Strong, Volume II, p. 611). Cardinal de Cusa later held that the end of the world would come in the year 1700 A.D. Another Catholic scholar, Arnald of Villanova predicted that the Antichrist would appear in [color=blue1378 A.D. (Visions of The End, McGinn, p. 147)
（摘自 Unfulfilled historical predictions by Christians - Wikipedia）
二十世紀 70 年代，美國人 Hal Lindsey 寫的 "The Late Great Planet Earth" 預言 80 代末一場由蘇聯引發的核子戰爭揭開世界末日的帷幕。該書售出過千萬本。
二十世紀 80 年代，美國人 Edgar Whisenant 著 "88 Reasons Why the Rapture Will Be in 1988"（《1988 年被提的 88 個理由》，按「被提」乃指當世界末日到來，神審判世人時，「信主」的會被神帶到天國去）一書，由 World Bible Society 發行，總銷量起碼數百萬本。
