The relentless idiocy of those who believe book of Revelation

[LaDexter]

The toll is tremendous. It is the favorite book of the dumbest sub humans, the ones with no patriotism to the US, the ones who think Israel is divinely justified in murdering Americans, starting US wars over lies, and stealing every dollar not locked up in FT Knox...

911
JFK
1983 Marines


how many more must die because sub humans believe "GOD" thinks a star is the size of a fig leaf???


Revelation 6:13 and the stars in the sky fell to earth, as figs drop from a fig tree when shaken by a strong wind.

Verse (Click for Chapter)
New International Version
and the stars in the sky fell to earth, as figs drop from a fig tree when shaken by a strong wind.

New Living Translation
Then the stars of the sky fell to the earth like green figs falling from a tree shaken by a strong wind.

English Standard Version
and the stars of the sky fell to the earth as the fig tree sheds its winter fruit when shaken by a gale.

Berean Study Bible
and the stars of the sky fell to the earth, like unripe figs dropping from a tree shaken by a great wind.

 

[Book of Jeremiah]

The toll is tremendous. It is the favorite book of the dumbest sub humans, the ones with no patriotism to the US, the ones who think Israel is divinely justified in murdering Americans, starting US wars over lies, and stealing every dollar not locked up in FT Knox...

911
JFK
1983 Marines


how many more must die because sub humans believe "GOD" thinks a star is the size of a fig leaf???


Revelation 6:13 and the stars in the sky fell to earth, as figs drop from a fig tree when shaken by a strong wind.

Verse (Click for Chapter)
New International Version
and the stars in the sky fell to earth, as figs drop from a fig tree when shaken by a strong wind.

New Living Translation
Then the stars of the sky fell to the earth like green figs falling from a tree shaken by a strong wind.

English Standard Version
and the stars of the sky fell to the earth as the fig tree sheds its winter fruit when shaken by a gale.

Berean Study Bible
and the stars of the sky fell to the earth, like unripe figs dropping from a tree shaken by a great wind.

It's not called the Book of Revelation. It's called The Revelation of Jesus Christ. The Scriptures do not say the stars are the size of figs. Your interpretation of Scripture needs some serious help. But first learn the name of the Book you're talking about. Then read it.

 

[Avatar4321]

What are you talking about?

 

[LaDexter]

The Scriptures do not say the stars are the size of figs.

The implication of saying that the "stars" will fall from the sky like fig leaves is proof that the author of Revelation thought stars were way way smaller than Earth. The smallest star known is 10 times the size of Jupiter.

God didn't write Revelation.

Revelation is essentially some idiot's delusional fantasy that a dead human will come back "soon."

"Soon" now means "at least 1800 years from now" which is why the Lutherans axed it from the Bible centuries ago.

 

[LaDexter]

What are you talking about?

If you believe Revelation you believe Earth is way way larger than the stars.

Here is the Sun next to Antares....


The diameter of Earth is 10k miles, for the Sun it is 1 million miles....






The author thinks Antares would fall to Earth like a fig leaf, when, in reality, if Earth got to within 1 billion miles of Antares, all water on Earth would turn to steam.... and Earth would be sucked into Antares like a ping pong ball sucked up by an industrial fan....

 

[Meriweather]

It is not the relentless idiocy of those who believe in the Book of Revelation, it is the relentless idiocy of those who believe in the late 1800s (and later) misinterpretations of the Book of Revelation.

Revelation was written in the first century in the form of apocalyptic literature which was very popular at the time. In order to properly understand the Book of Revelation, one has to understand the figurative language common during that era. John was writing to people of the first century, of the problems they were facing. He was not staring into some unknown future.

The Book of Revelation almost did not make it into the New Testament Canon because they were of the mind people of future times and cultures unfamiliar with the culture and history of earlier times would be too ignorant to understand its meanings. Now that was a true prophecy. Unable to understand the original meanings, people simply came up with their own meanings, essentially rewriting the Revelation. You know, that book where John warned people not to do this.

 

[LaDexter]

The Book of Revelation almost did not make it into the New Testament Canon because

... even back then some had brains and knew a star was slightly larger than a fig leaf....

 

[Avatar4321]

The Book of Revelation almost did not make it into the New Testament Canon because

... even back then some had brains and knew a star was slightly larger than a fig leaf....

Are you really this unfamiliar with analogies?

 

[LaDexter]

Are you really this unfamiliar with analogies?

Trying to spin the actual words of Revelation into an "analogy" is the typical bullshit we get when the biBULL gets busted for being WRONG.

Galileo went to prison because sub humans didn't like the truth he was saying... because it outed the biBULL as BULLSHIT.

 

[Meriweather]

... even back then some had brains and knew a star was slightly larger than a fig leaf....

John was speaking figuratively, not literally. He wasn't saying stars are the size of figs. To the people of that time (actually even in our own time) we see the heavens as orderly and always moving in an orderly fashion.

Today, when we say, "It is raining cats and dogs," we don't mean that literally, we mean it is raining very hard. In the same way, to say stars would be falling like figs from a tree, simply indicates chaotic times here on earth. It doesn't mean that all of a sudden all the stars would start falling from their place in the heavens.

If John were observing today's US media coverage since the US Presidential election, he would probably describe it as stars falling from the heavens like figs from a tree. Chaotic.

 

[Meriweather]

Trying to spin the actual words of Revelation into an "analogy" is the typical bullshit we get when the biBULL gets busted for being WRONG.

Galileo went to prison because sub humans didn't like the truth he was saying... because it outed the biBULL as BULLSHIT.

You need to re-read the life and times of Galileo. The Church didn't tell Galileo he could not advance his theory as long as he presented it as such. Where Galileo got into trouble is when he insisted that Church should change the Bible so that the Bible reflected the correct theory. The Church then was against editing parts of the Bible people didn't like just as much as it is today. The policy has always been the Bible stays as originally written. Galileo thought the Bible should be changed.

Today, we can see why changing the Bible itself was important to Galileo. The Bible was the book from which most received their all learning. Galileo could no more see into the future with classroom filled with science book correctly presenting his findings than Benjamin Franklin could look into the future and see people reading their newspapers on computers.

We should always be cognizant that people in earlier times saw through a different prism than we are looking through today.

 

[Avatar4321]

Are you really this unfamiliar with analogies?

Trying to spin the actual words of Revelation into an "analogy" is the typical bullshit we get when the biBULL gets busted for being WRONG.

Galileo went to prison because sub humans didn't like the truth he was saying... because it outed the biBULL as BULLSHIT.

There is no where English is spoken where that isn't an analogy.

It's like me saying "the earth spins like the basketball on a Harlem globe trotters finger" Means I'm saying the earth is the size a basketball. It's absurd

 

[norwegen]

The Book of Revelation almost did not make it into the New Testament Canon because

... even back then some had brains and knew a star was slightly larger than a fig leaf....

Are you really this unfamiliar with analogies?

Sadly, Christians interpret the imagery of Revelation with the same wooden literalism that LaDexter does. They miss the presence of the Kingdom right under their noses when they anticipate the marriage of Christ to a giant cube they think is the new Jerusalem.

 

[aris2chat]

I can't believe it was even included in the bible of the west

 

[norwegen]

I can't believe it was even included in the bible of the west

Revelation finishes the story. The Zealots and the Romans destroyed Jerusalem, burned down the Temple, and brought political Israel to an end. The book's vivid retelling of the Jewish Wars assumes the same apocalyptic style as its assurance of the growth of the Church, by whose light the nations walk (21:24).

 

[DOTR]

"Soon" now means "at least 1800 years from now" which is why the Lutherans axed it from the Bible centuries ago.

The Lutherans did no such thing. Where do you get this nonsense?

 

[LaDexter]

John was speaking figuratively, not literally.

This is clearly the Church's equivalent of the Clinton "talking points" memos.

When the biBULL is busted for being full of shit, say it is "speaking figuratively...."

and deny and lie and claim John really did know that a star is much much larger than a fig leaf even as he wrote JUST THE OPPOSITE in his "true" book...

When will the "SOON" part come true???

LOL!!!


Jesus was a man. He had no power. He was just a charlatan with a team of leeches surrounding him. When given the chance to show divine power in court, he had none. Even for a Jew, he was dishonest as hell...

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

It's idiocy to believe anything in the Bible as literal truth.

 

[LaDexter]

Where Galileo got into trouble is when he insisted that Church should change the Bible so that the Bible reflected the correct theory.

LOL!!!

Asking a religion that claims to be about TRUTH to actually be about TRUTH got Galileo put in PRISON.

 

[LaDexter]

It's idiocy to believe anything in the Bible as literal truth.

I do not buy that. I think the Bible selectively embellishes because there was a purpose to its origin, a coup of a group of escaped slaves.