(July 5, 2017 at 9:02 pm)Godscreated Wrote:Wow, you couldn't even come up with sources for a competing interpretation? 5 minutes with a Google search would have given you a dozen that you could have thrown back at me, complete with proper sources. And the only thing you come up with is a wave of the hand and a dismissal? I'm SO impressed by your tunnel vision buried in concrete biblical knowledge, it's SO compelling.(July 5, 2017 at 11:44 am)drfuzzy Wrote: SO many interpretations of the book of Revelations. It's really too bad that the whole piece reads like it came from a bronze-age shaman hopped up to the gills on some really, really potent 'shrooms. (Yes, I've read it, many times - it was my Mothers' favorite book.) I rather prefer the Revelations take that many scholars follow (although how one can come to any conclusions about a confused description of a really bad LSD trip is almost as mind-boggling as the book) - - that it was written before 70 "AD" and predicted the fall of Jerusalem. The dragon, and all the evil, is descriptive of the Roman empire. But, of course, the fact that absolutely nobody on the planet can actually say what this work of drivel MEANS proves to me that it doesn't mean ANYTHING of ANY IMPORTANCE other than it's moronic drivel, and there is certainly no deity involved.
Since you had nothing noteworthy to say I'll say this, nothing, it makes as much sense as what you said.
GC
"The family that prays together...is brainwashing their children."- Albert Einstein