(November 14, 2019 at 9:48 am)Jehanne Wrote:(November 14, 2019 at 9:02 am)Grandizer Wrote: Well, it's Revelation. It's a book of imagery and symbolism more than anything else.
I believe that the author was being literal in his sentiments. If you look at the 2nd and 3rd century Christian thinkers, they believed in a flat Earth also.
These days most scholars agree that the Revelation of John is entirely symbolic, mostly collaged together from symbols in the Old Testament.
It's not persuasive to me to say that it must be literal because it's in Revelation.
As for the 2nd and 3rd century Christians, again, what is your source for that?
