Did John write the book of Revelation or did Jesus. In Christian mythology did Jesus just show up and say recite! to John like the angel Gabriel did Muhummad in the Muslim mythology?
Again, I apologize, I'm an evil evolutionist satan worshipping atheist who doesn't have the holy spirit so, I'm just a lost sheep in need of a shepard, I guess I prefer the darkness to the light.
2006-07-28 09:23:59 · 50 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You are funny. I don't think people appreciate your humor but I do.
John was banished to an island as you might have read. He received visions of the end times. He was not really well educated like Paul. However his visions to correspond with the old testament like Daniel and his visions. Some people argue that John was mad and made it all up. However if you were to strip away the "religious" stuff and just look at the book as a record of astronomical events, it is very plausible. I know that does not mean anything to a "satan worshiping atheist" but that is my explanation.
As far as Muhammad he was illiterate and had followers copy many books that Constantine did not canonize into the bible. If you look at passages in the Koran they are identical to books wrote three hundred years before him by Gnostics.
Does that shed any "light"?
2006-07-28 09:34:26 · answer #1 · answered by Fantasy Girl 3 · 8⤊ 1⤋
All of the 66 books in the Bible were inspired by God and written by some 40 different authors.
John is the author of John, I John, II John, III John and Revelation.
Revelation was (IMO) John's spiritually privileged eye witnessed account of Heaven and the end of time events as allowed by the grace of God.
All sinners prefer darkness to the light so that there sins and shortcoming may remain hidden - just a fact of life.
Atheism does not truly exist for you if you worship someone/something else. Atheist (from what I understand) do not believe in a higher or superior power to humankind.
All need Salvation to avoid eternal damnation. This can be possible by repenting (shunning sin) and accepting of Jesus Christ as personal savior.
2006-07-28 09:43:02 · answer #2 · answered by JA 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I for one am glad to see you at least know the truth!
Again, I apologize, I'm an evil evolutionist satan worshipping atheist who doesn't have the holy spirit so, I'm just a lost sheep in need of a shepard, I guess I prefer the darkness to the light.
2006-07-28 09:29:37 · answer #3 · answered by jon 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it wold be nice to know not only who wrote Revelation, but indeed the Gospels themselves. But that's an A for another Q.
I suppose the writing you refer to is also known as the type which is accomplished via "divine inspiration."
I can only assume this is a state akin to what happens to me when I decide to write a couplet after 4 or more single-malts.I scribble as if in a trance. Well, in fact I am pretty much in a trance by then.
The point is that on the next day I am always surprised at what I wrote. Like the good John's writing, no intelligence seems to have informed what I produced. And yet there it is, on the paper, perhaps at odd angles, but (usually) in one of the languages I speak.
So perhaps we can call John's texts the result of theo-intoxication, a Yahweh high. Or maybe it was just the house red.
2006-07-28 09:45:59 · answer #4 · answered by JAT 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you were a true atheist - there is no devil either so I doubt that you would be an evolutionist Satan worshiping person? but...to answer the question, I think it was in a vision, then later translated. But, keep in mind that "flying wheels and things like that in the bible where in visions or a foresight or gift of sight - and could have been mis-interrupted by people writing back in those days. So many things were considered strange to them, because keep in mind - those days they neither had electric or concept of TV, planes, jets - Microwaves... and other things such things as that, so to them things were strange and evil.
2006-07-28 09:33:47 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
John wrote Revelation and the gospel that bears his name, along with three short letters.
John wrote Revelation after having a vision on the island of Patmos.
He wrote the gospel as an account of Jesus's ministry, which he witnessed, because he was one of the apostles.
Love, Jack
2006-07-28 09:27:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Vedas were passed down verbally for nearly 1200 years before they were made into texts. Yet, the original authors are still considered the individuals who first began to recite the Vedas.
2006-07-28 09:33:37 · answer #7 · answered by Jorge 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You bring up a good point.
Its funny how Christians/believers preach to everyone that they should love one another, yet belittle, berate those who chose to believe in science.
I suppse I'm an evil evolutionist satan worshipping atheist, as well.
2006-07-28 09:29:23 · answer #8 · answered by sfireyred 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There's no such thing as a satan worshiping atheist, since satan was originally an angel of God, and is just as invisible. That narrows your self description down to one remaining word.
2006-07-28 09:29:17 · answer #9 · answered by sethle99 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No-one knows who wrote it. Church tradition is that John the Divine wrote it (not the gospel writer john, and not the disciple john). Supposedly, he had the visions and wrote them down. It wasn't simply a dictation even according to Christian mythology.
2006-07-28 09:28:18 · answer #10 · answered by lenny 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋