RE: A Response To: A Book of Contradictions
May 18, 2011 at 3:44 pm
(This post was last modified: May 18, 2011 at 3:59 pm by Minimalist.)
(May 18, 2011 at 6:45 am)Zen Badger Wrote: I have read Revelations, several times.
And I have concluded that it is incoherent, inconsistent and utterly beyond logical comprehension.
If you wish to make a case for your religion please don't use this.
It is a fail just waiting to happen.
There is a line in Revelations which dates it to late 68 or early 69 AD.
Revelations 17
Quote: 9And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.
10And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.
11And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition
Five are fallen: Augustus; Tiberius; Caligula; Claudius; Nero.
One is: Servius Sulpicius Galba who was emperor for 7 months in the aftermath of Nero's suicide. From July 68 to January 69 AD.
and the other is not yet come; Titus Flavius Vespasianus... who at that precise moment in time was preparing to assault Jerusalem after crushing the Great Revolt in Galilee. Josephus, famously, got on Vespasian's good side by predicting that he would soon be emperor.... something which would not have been lost on the other Jews who were screaming about Josephus being a traitor. We can forgive the author for not guessing that two other generals ( Otho and Vitellius) would also try to seize the throne in 69 AD. No one could have seen that coming.
It seems that whatever this thing may have been when it ended, at some point it began as a Jewish Apocalyptic writing about the shit-storm they were about to suffer at the hands of the Romans. Xtians probably adapted it for their own use later on.
