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Date Posted: 13:58:11 10/20/02 Sun
Author: Adilbrand
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No bearing on the question
In reply to: Abba's Son 's message, "Re: Here's a question." on 22:08:40 10/19/02 Sat

I wondered when someone would bring up this crap. The writing of Revelation was motivated by persecution of the Christians by the Roman government. The Romans had revived the requirement that everyone worship the emperor as a living god. This practice was reinstituted by Emperor Domitian near the end of his reign, during the early 90's CE. Thus, the book of Revelation is assumed to have been written at about that time. Its main theme is to call for Christian solidarity to resist the demands of the empire and to refuse to worship the emperor.

The author of Revelation clearly anticipated the end of the world within a few years of the writing of the book. He writes in the first chapter about "things which must shortly come to pass" and "the time is at hand." Of course, it never happened.

Most liberal Christians today pay little attention to the book. They largely reject it because it portrays a God who is extremely hateful and bent on revenge against virtually all humanity. The God of Revelation bears no resemblance to the loving, kind Abba who was worshiped by Jesus. The book describes armies fighting on horseback with primitive, first century weapons. It obviously has little relevance to us today. It was simply probably apocalyptic literature which was written to bolster the morale of 1st century Christians in 7 churches, located in present-day Turkey.

Thus, it has no bearing on Mark's question.

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Still no bearing on the question, but Luther's thoughts on it might interest some -- Adilbrand, 14:01:55 10/20/02 Sun
- Some comments on Luther's thoughts -- Mt. healthy mountaineer, 21:46:46 10/20/02 Sun
Re: No bearing on the question -- Abba's Son, 14:03:18 10/21/02 Mon
- I could respond, but really, what would be the point? (NT) -- mvd, 15:38:42 10/21/02 Mon
  - Re: I could respond, but really, what would be the point? -- Abba's Son, 14:39:17 10/22/02 Tue
    - Personally... -- Mt. Healthy Mountaineer, 16:52:42 10/22/02 Tue
      - Yes, but why must it have a Christian context? -- mvd, 11:34:10 10/23/02 Wed
        Re: Yes, but why must it have a Christian context? -- mt. healthy mountaineer, 16:41:26 10/23/02 Wed
        Okay. (NT) -- mvd, 11:10:03 10/24/02 Thu
    - My balls are far from busted -- mvd, 11:31:06 10/23/02 Wed