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BigBearJohn

(11,410 posts)
Fri Dec 30, 2016, 07:24 AM Dec 2016

I never put much stock into the ideas contained in the Book of Revelation

HOWEVER, the election of Trump into power is starting to convince me that we may be seeing the Apocalypse beginning right before our eyes. Phew, please let me be wrong!

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I never put much stock into the ideas contained in the Book of Revelation (Original Post) BigBearJohn Dec 2016 OP
Zealots will take words written Skidmore Dec 2016 #1
Martin Luther didn't put much stock in the Book of Revelation either FarCenter Dec 2016 #2
I dont put much stock in mother goose fairy tales either but would trust one of those more then the libtodeath Dec 2016 #3
Recent joke Lilyhoney Dec 2016 #4
LOL Achilleaze Dec 2016 #5
... Quackers Dec 2016 #8
before I'd reference one of the versions of the bible bigtree Dec 2016 #6
He isn't the Antichrist leftyladyfrommo Dec 2016 #7

Skidmore

(37,364 posts)
1. Zealots will take words written
Fri Dec 30, 2016, 07:34 AM
Dec 2016

for a different struggle in another epoch and make them happen in this one.

 

FarCenter

(19,429 posts)
2. Martin Luther didn't put much stock in the Book of Revelation either
Fri Dec 30, 2016, 08:53 AM
Dec 2016
http://www.bible-researcher.com/antilegomena.html

It is a very late addition to the canon and of very uncertain authorship.

libtodeath

(2,888 posts)
3. I dont put much stock in mother goose fairy tales either but would trust one of those more then the
Fri Dec 30, 2016, 09:48 AM
Dec 2016

bible.

Lilyhoney

(1,985 posts)
4. Recent joke
Fri Dec 30, 2016, 10:02 AM
Dec 2016

John (while writing Revelations): "So Lord, the end will be signaled by trumpets?"
God: "No... I said Trump/Pence."
John: Yeah, trumpets.
God: "Never mind. They'll know."

bigtree

(85,984 posts)
6. before I'd reference one of the versions of the bible
Fri Dec 30, 2016, 10:16 AM
Dec 2016

...I'd look to the words and warnings of our nation's founders and subsequent public servants who have upheld and defended vital principles of our democracy.

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