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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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#21
RE: Revelations
October 30, 2013 at 1:49 pm
Why is their god such a piss poor fucking translator?
Can't get his own writers to keep the original message clear -
Can't keep consistency inside the book itself -
Can't keep it translated properly from language to language -
Can't translate his Word for modern man without thousands of douchy internet apologists to "interpret" the thing for everyone else -



Seems like a real cheese dick. Undecided
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RE: Revelations
October 30, 2013 at 1:53 pm
(October 29, 2013 at 6:42 pm)ChadWooters Wrote:
(October 29, 2013 at 4:35 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote: ...why would I want to worship a god which will make such bizarre and horrific events happen?
So you won't burn in the lake of fire. Duh.

That would be the God of love and forgiveness then? Dodgy
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#23
RE: Revelations
October 30, 2013 at 1:56 pm
(October 30, 2013 at 1:53 pm)Darwinian Wrote:
(October 29, 2013 at 6:42 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: So you won't burn in the lake of fire. Duh.

That would be the God of love and forgiveness then? Dodgy

There's another god in christianity?? I only know about YahwehTongue
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RE: Revelations
October 30, 2013 at 1:57 pm
There are two aren't there? The O.T. God and the N.T. God.. I mean they are clearly completely different characters!
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#25
RE: Revelations
October 30, 2013 at 3:13 pm
A fact which causes xtians no end of trouble.
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RE: Revelations
October 30, 2013 at 3:19 pm
(October 30, 2013 at 1:53 pm)Darwinian Wrote:
(October 29, 2013 at 6:42 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: So you won't burn in the lake of fire. Duh.

That would be the God of love and forgiveness then? Dodgy

Yes, the same God of love and forgiveness which condemns all of us to eternal torture but offers us a "gift" of salvation if we keep kissing his ass for eternity.

Really, it's no different from an abusive stalker who holds a gun to his victim's head and tells her that if she marries him he won't kill her.
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RE: Revelations
October 30, 2013 at 7:17 pm
(October 29, 2013 at 4:35 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote: Revelation is nothing more than the writings of a superstitious man tripping on mushrooms. But it's funny how seriously Christians take that book of the bible. You can make any claim you want about the end of the world or the antichrist and just claim that it's in Revelation, and Christians won't question you. The thing is, yet again I must ask why would I want to worship a god which will make such bizarre and horrific events happen?

I think I have a problem with Revelation that the book was not added until 300 years after the event. Making sure all the Desciples were long dead.

It was also written by a guy named 'John' and thats all were told. Given the fact that the Nicea council rejected it intitially I'd say the book is a pile of balls.

Why dont we get the Apocyalpse of Peter back in - Everyone gets saved!

Ooh wait - like the Church faithers said 'The apocaylpse of peter is incompatable with the bible' or as I read it - Telling people theres no consequences for their action is a bad idea lets get rid of that book!
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RE: Revelations
October 30, 2013 at 8:06 pm
What's so bad about mushrooms?
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RE: Revelations
October 30, 2013 at 8:10 pm
(October 30, 2013 at 8:06 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: What's so bad about mushrooms?

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That's what's bad about mushrooms.
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RE: Revelations
October 30, 2013 at 8:56 pm
Technically that's a toad's tool. Or something.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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