Near the end of what age? The Christian Age?For a big apostasy to happen, there has to be a big believing. One must first believe, in order to be apostate. Apparently, God's standard for the big believing is 1/5 of the planet's population, at any given time. Or so you would have us believe. Which is self evidently absurd.When speaking about a big apostasy, it is not about how many Christians there are in the world in comparison to all people
Ah yes,"many". Could be 100. Or even 1000! Or billions!many will fall away from the faith
This is nebulous nonsense that you can retrofit to anything. Mass apostasiy from christianity...especially as the Muslims conquered vast swaths of land... Has happened already . Why didnt god spring into action then? I suppose back then, there were people saying precisely what you are saying now. And it will turn out the same way, I bet: No god antics.
You're being needlessly argumentative. Are you really unable to grasp that the word "big" can refer to percentage rather than total numbers? Besides, the word big was a word *I* used, not the bible, so I don't know why you're getting so hung up on that particular word.
Why does it have to be a specific number for you? Again, it seems like you just want to argue, instead of talking about the actual point, and what it's saying.
Also, of course apostasy has happened in the past, and it happens today, but the specific apostasy I was referring to was the one that will happen near the end of this age. Of course you will argue about that too, as you do about everything, but I don't have the time or desire to explain all of this to you in detail, which you will reject anyway.