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Christian Astrology
#11
RE: Christian Astrology
Astrology/science? Keep posting, I like what you're doing for the image of atheism! Angel Cloud
Now how bout dem bears?
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#12
RE: Christian Astrology
(January 17, 2013 at 2:09 pm)Drich Wrote: You do know Revelations was Physically written by John on Patmos (An Island prision.) Revelations is a 1st century man's attempt to describe what he saw. God showed the man what the end of the world would look like. However It was John's words and his limited experienced that capture these events.

In other words, it's an inaccurate transcription of a lunatic episode. No wonder it stuck when it came time to determine biblical canon.
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#13
RE: Christian Astrology
(January 17, 2013 at 3:29 pm)Ryantology Wrote:
(January 17, 2013 at 2:09 pm)Drich Wrote: You do know Revelations was Physically written by John on Patmos (An Island prision.) Revelations is a 1st century man's attempt to describe what he saw. God showed the man what the end of the world would look like. However It was John's words and his limited experienced that capture these events.

In other words, it's an inaccurate transcription of a lunatic episode. No wonder it stuck when it came time to determine biblical canon.

It is the Best this man could do with the vocab, and experience he had.
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#14
RE: Christian Astrology
It wouldn't matter if John of Patmos was Billy Shakespeare. The fact that he is completely full of shit is somewhat more problematic.
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#15
RE: Christian Astrology
(January 17, 2013 at 2:09 pm)Drich Wrote: .. God showed the man what the end of the world would look like. However It was John's words and his limited experienced that capture these events.

So god showed the man a vision knowing he would write about it. The holy spirit "guided/inspired" his writings, but neither god nor the holy spirit could be bothered to give him words for a more accurate description.

Do you see the problem with that?
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#16
RE: Christian Astrology
(January 16, 2013 at 10:01 pm)ThatMuslimGuy Wrote: Revelations 12:
A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head. 2 She was pregnant and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth. 3 Then another sign appeared in heaven: an enormous red dragon with seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on its heads. 4 Its tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and flung them to the earth. The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that it might devour her child the moment he was born. 5 She gave birth to a son, a male child, who “will rule all the nations with an iron scepter.”[a] And her child was snatched up to God and to his throne. 6 The woman fled into the wilderness to a place prepared for her by God, where she might be taken care of for 1,260 days.

Wow. Far out. I didn't realize that Amaterasu was mentioned in the holy bible. See! Even Christians acknowledge Japanese gods!


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#17
RE: Christian Astrology
(January 17, 2013 at 6:45 pm)Brakeman Wrote:
(January 17, 2013 at 2:09 pm)Drich Wrote: .. God showed the man what the end of the world would look like. However It was John's words and his limited experienced that capture these events.

So god showed the man a vision knowing he would write about it. The holy spirit "guided/inspired" his writings, but neither god nor the holy spirit could be bothered to give him words for a more accurate description.

Do you see the problem with that?
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Seriously brakeman?are you messing with me or is this another bear thing?

Tell me you are joking and you can see the problem with doing what you suggested...
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#18
RE: Christian Astrology
(January 17, 2013 at 2:13 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/...tion.shtml

Quote:The author of the text tells us that his name is John. Christian tradition has taken him to be the apostle John, author of the Fourth Gospel. However, the John of Revelation does not claim to be one of the disciples or to have known Jesus.

Stylometric analysis, a process which analyses an author's style of writing, shows that the Book of Revelation and John's Gospel display more differences to each other than any other two books in the New Testament.

What scholars can say about the John of Revelation is that he was a significant figure in the early church in the Roman province of Asia Minor (modern day Turkey).

So not the apostle then. Just some random dude called John.

What an awesome article that was. My favourite part was the bit about 666/616 translating to Nero and Caligula respectively. It's a bit harsh to call them Beasts though *tut tut*.
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#19
RE: Christian Astrology
(January 18, 2013 at 12:02 am)Drich Wrote:
(January 17, 2013 at 6:45 pm)Brakeman Wrote: So god showed the man a vision knowing he would write about it. The holy spirit "guided/inspired" his writings, but neither god nor the holy spirit could be bothered to give him words for a more accurate description.

Do you see the problem with that?
Big Grin

Seriously brakeman?are you messing with me or is this another bear thing?

Tell me you are joking and you can see the problem with doing what you suggested...

Nope, I'm not joking and I don't see the problem. Will you answer the sincere question?
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#20
RE: Christian Astrology
(January 17, 2013 at 3:41 pm)Drich Wrote:
(January 17, 2013 at 3:29 pm)Ryantology Wrote: In other words, it's an inaccurate transcription of a lunatic episode. No wonder it stuck when it came time to determine biblical canon.

It is the Best this man could do with the vocab, and experience he had.

That he was probably completely shit faced on magic mushrooms wouldn't have helped either.

I mean seriously, what a complete load of goobledegook.

For instance......

Quote: 6:6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.

What the fuck is this supposed to mean?
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