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Poll: Regarding the Book of Revelations found in the Bible ....
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I believe that Revelations must be translated literally and that such stories of a seven-headed beast rising from the sea and the four horseman are going to be very real and exactly that.
5.71%
2 5.71%
I believe that Revelations is partially literal and partially alligorical.
5.71%
2 5.71%
I believe either the large majority or the whole of Revelations is allegorical. I don't believe that beasts from hell will be running around devouring people up.
11.43%
4 11.43%
If you're left behind after the rapture, you are going to witness terrifying monsters for real!
2.86%
1 2.86%
Revelations is the ramblings of a primitive lunatic. Stop asking silly questions Cinjin!
74.29%
26 74.29%
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Revelations
#11
RE: Revelations
(October 29, 2013 at 4:29 pm)Dionysius Wrote: The Book of Revelation is merely a more modern retelling of the Papyrus of Ani .

Ani, as in plural of anus?

That would make it toilet paper. Yep, that's Revelation alright.
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#12
RE: Revelations
Quote:It is between fifty and sixty years since I read it and I then considered it as merely the ravings of a maniac no more worthy nor capable of explanation than the incoherences of our own nightly dreams.

Thomas Jefferson on revelation.
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#13
RE: Revelations
(October 29, 2013 at 7:34 pm)Stimbo Wrote:
(October 29, 2013 at 4:29 pm)Dionysius Wrote: The Book of Revelation is merely a more modern retelling of the Papyrus of Ani .

Ani, as in plural of anus?

That would make it toilet paper. Yep, that's Revelation alright.

I was kinda hoping for an Anikin Skywalker/Darth Vader segue. I guess that revelation was already shown to us in the Cloud City climactic bomb drop, though.
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#14
RE: Revelations
I thought the Papyrus of Ani was The Book of The Dead that Budge stole... er, found.
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#15
RE: Revelations
(October 29, 2013 at 8:02 pm)Captain Colostomy Wrote:
(October 29, 2013 at 7:34 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Ani, as in plural of anus?

That would make it toilet paper. Yep, that's Revelation alright.

I was kinda hoping for an Anikin Skywalker/Darth Vader segue. I guess that revelation was already shown to us in the Cloud City climactic bomb drop, though.

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It is certainly plausible. Devil

(October 29, 2013 at 7:34 pm)Stimbo Wrote:
(October 29, 2013 at 4:29 pm)Dionysius Wrote: The Book of Revelation is merely a more modern retelling of the Papyrus of Ani .

Ani, as in plural of anus?

That would make it toilet paper. Yep, that's Revelation alright.

Not to appear pedantic, but from a scholarly viewpoint the Papyrus of Ani is anything BUTT (pun intended) toilet paper. Although it does do the trick in a pinch, I prefer charmin
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#16
RE: Revelations
The account in Revelation is the best an old man living in the first century could do to describe what he understood and saw in The end times. Basically this book is how John would describe the last days of man, right or wrong this was the best he could do.
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#17
RE: Revelations
Give him an F.
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#18
RE: Revelations
Where is the "I don't know" option? This is a very open question. Some things within the Faith have yet to be revealed.

Plus, I do not know everything.

But I will cast my vote none the less.
". . . let the atheists themselves choose a god. They will find only one divinity who ever uttered their isolation; only one religion in which God seemed for an instant to be an atheist." -G. K. Chesterton
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#19
RE: Revelations
(October 30, 2013 at 12:45 am)Drich Wrote: The account in Revelation is the best an old man living in the first century could do to describe what he understood and saw in The end times. Basically this book is how John would describe the last days of man, right or wrong this was the best he could do.

Funny how he totally didn't see modern buildings like skyscrapers, automobiles, guns, or tanks, nor people communicating with electronic devices, or even concrete highways for that matter, but all he could see was people riding horses and carrying swords.
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#20
RE: Revelations
(October 30, 2013 at 1:37 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote:
(October 30, 2013 at 12:45 am)Drich Wrote: The account in Revelation is the best an old man living in the first century could do to describe what he understood and saw in The end times. Basically this book is how John would describe the last days of man, right or wrong this was the best he could do.

Funny how he totally didn't see modern buildings like skyscrapers, automobiles, guns, or tanks, nor people communicating with electronic devices, or even concrete highways for that matter, but all he could see was people riding horses and carrying swords.

And since he was incapable of describing the things he was seeing, one would think his god would put the words into him the way he put the words into the tent dwellers turned self-proclaimed prophets on the mainland. Oh ...er ... that's right, his god didn't do a very good job with that either.
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