(10-28-2023, 07:12 AM)BodhisattvaStyle Wrote: .I remember learning about that "code" Revelation was written in and why.
That is exactly what changed my entire perception of that book.
I kind of like how catholics put it. "It has already happened, and is happening now, and will still happen."
Something like that.
Exactly. I'm not a Catholic, or really even a Christian of any kind - I was baptized as an Independent Baptist over 30 years ago, but had to walk away due to teachings like Millenialism, and a difference with Christians in matters of Christology - but that is one thing I think the Catholics have right.
But folks should understand this is just how I believe - I'm not saying that is how they should believe, too. What others believe is between them and their God. What I say to them is not important. What God says to them is what matters, for them.
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“Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake