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In terms of the day of judgement, what do you think is meant by Day of the Lord, as used in the Bible? I once heard a (conservative, surprisingly) Christian say that each chapter of Revelation was like a new retelling of the same thing.
I have my own understanding. I may share it later.
In terms of the day of judgement, what do you think is meant by Day of the Lord, as used in the Bible? I once heard a (conservative, surprisingly) Christian say that each chapter of Revelation was like a new retelling of the same thing.
I have my own understanding. I may share it later.
I think the only people who should be allowed to parse Revelation are mystics like our own Hannibal.
All others - don't go there. Nothing good can come of it.
I've got my own take on what it means, or what the people of the centuries around 1-BC - 1 AD thought it meant, but I doubt anyone wants to hear it any more than I want to type it.
I've got my own take on what it means, or what the people of the centuries around 1-BC - 1 AD thought it meant, but I doubt anyone wants to hear it any more than I want to type it.
Since Revelation was written at the end of the first century AD common era, then the people of the centuries around 1 BC and 1 AD had No access to Revelation because it was written after their time frame.
Besides the setting for Revelation 1:10 is for our day, for our time frame. Revelation was written for us.
Since Revelation was written at the end of the first century AD common era, then the people of the centuries around 1 BC and 1 AD had No access to Revelation because it was written after their time frame.
Besides the setting for Revelation 1:10 is for our day, for our time frame. Revelation was written for us.
I find it amusing that the kind of apologists who attest to an oral tradition for Noah's account of the Ark story going back to 3,000 BC, predating any Johnny - come -lately Sumerian versions will at need postulate that something written at the end of the 1st c AD can't be drawing on Pharisee tradition going back a hundred years or so.
And the tenor of the Gospels indicated that they thought it was imminent. It was going to happen when they were still alive. It isn't for us today, not by a couple of thousand years.
And since this is going where it belongs - Christianity - I'll leave you to it.
Thread moved from R&S to Christianity (for obvious reasons).
I would have rather kept it in Religion. I know the difference between these forums. This has to do with both Christianity and Judaism, and probably Islam. There is a lot more about this in the Old Testament than the New. I want to hear what the religious non-Christians think about this also.
I don't think this is necessarily a Christian idea anyway.
Since Revelation was written at the end of the first century AD common era, then the people of the centuries around 1 BC and 1 AD had No access to Revelation because it was written after their time frame.
Besides the setting for Revelation 1:10 is for our day, for our time frame. Revelation was written for us.
It's not even a part of Revelation. I just mentioned it because Revelation was based so much upon the Old Testament.
I find it amusing that the kind of apologists who attest to an oral tradition for Noah's account of the Ark story going back to 3,000 BC, predating any Johnny - come -lately Sumerian versions will at need postulate that something written at the end of the 1st c AD can't be drawing on Pharisee tradition going back a hundred years or so.
And the tenor of the Gospels indicated that they thought it was imminent. It was going to happen when they were still alive. It isn't for us today, not by a couple of thousand years.
And since this is going where it belongs - Christianity - I'll leave you to it.
You obviously don't know much about this topic.
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I find it amusing that the kind of apologists who attest to an oral tradition for Noah's account of the Ark story going back to 3,000 BC, predating any Johnny - come -lately Sumerian versions will at need postulate that something written at the end of the 1st c AD can't be drawing on Pharisee tradition going back a hundred years or so. 
