On Apr 7, 2005, at 11:47 PM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
At 12:10 AM Friday 4/8/2005, Warren Ockrassa wrote:
And the epistles of Paul, while effective at establishing and maintaining the infant cult of Iasus, read like a lot of hard-right propaganda, which to me is more or less what they are.
Revelation is also hooey.
You say that like someone who has the sure word of God on that issue . . .
Nope, just healthy (lay) biblical scholarship.
It is interesting that you are much more likely to state things as absolutes than most people I know who do claim to have the sure word of God on issues.
Well, when arguing facts, I tend to do that. I'm just as certain of gravity, Earth's rough sphericity and the heliocentric solar system. I could be wrong, of course, but I don't think it's very likely.
John, when he wrote Revelation, was using cryptic symbology that didn't make the book look like a polemic against the contemporary institutions of power, but that's what it was intended to be. He wasn't writing of events in either the year 1000 or 2000; he was writing about the world he lived in right then, ~70 AD, and how he hoped things would turn out in his lifetime.
-- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress "The Seven-Year Mirror" http://www.nightwares.com/books/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf
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