I ask this for ALL people, not just Bible believers.
The reason I'm asking, is that in my Apocalypse class, we watched a tv show where they had totally misinterpreted the 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse. A lot of people were saying that they felt that was so "dangerous."
I can't imagine how this is dangerous unless you believe in the literal 4 horsemen.
It seemed odd to me for students to be expressing a personal religious view though in a state college. That's why I'm asking.
2006-10-20 15:32:40 · 15 answers · asked by Heron By The Sea 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
so the subject was the Bible and the book of revelations and you somehow felt offended becuz someone expreesed some religious affiliation or conviction. People out here are wondering why the christian right wing put this dingaling in office. This kind of persecution is why. These people feel like everyone is out to say they can not be themselves in public.
Attorneys who are a group who regularly profit from the misery of others get to talk in public and even in the court house but you get uneasy when christians take part in a discussion about the Bible. Those 4 horse men who may come are gonna make people wish they were not so anti-God.
I myself think Christians do better when they are persecuted cuz then when someone says they are a Christian they really are, and I would prefer to have to hide out to study the Bible with friends like they had to in Hungery 50 years ago, but your question even irritates me.
2006-10-20 15:44:52 · answer #1 · answered by icheeknows 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible is still a literary work just like any other book, plus it's been translated a lot and put into different versions. To say there is a right way to interpet the Bible is completley retarded. Everybody has their own interpetation of it and that is in no way dangerous. The people who say things like that find thinking for themselves dangerous.
2006-10-20 15:40:02 · answer #2 · answered by Reject187 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Devil takes our children and teaches them through his body that they are worthless animals with no purpose. Then when these worthless animals with no purpose start behaving like worthless animals as they are instructed the world wonders why this happened. The world doesn't have a clue who God is or what God is going to do to the world for trying to overthrow His Kingdom. The Day of the Lord is Coming sooner than the world could ever imagine. Matthew 24, Isaiah 24
2006-10-20 17:20:22 · answer #3 · answered by PowerfulProphet 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People can choose to believe what is fed to them, or they can choose to go do some research. Nobody can stop TV or anything else from changing the meaning of anything, and I think the danger lies in the probability that people won't get up off their butts and look for facts on the matter and will instead take what's fed to them.
Being passive is the only danger here.
2006-10-20 15:35:47 · answer #4 · answered by angk 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The e book is taught as an finished and at the same time as someone is having a bible study the appendix it truly is in the decrease back of the e book is detect at the same time as that particular financial disaster is being carried out. So no we are no longer attempting to deceive all of us about the id of Jesus Christ and he's Gods son the Archangel Michael.
2016-12-05 01:34:20 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In instances like this there needs to be more of a Bible study class than an Apocalypse class. In order for students to learn about the Bible the teacher needs to know about the Bible.
2006-10-20 15:36:22 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Given the nature of the subject, I feel that it should be taught with respect to the context.Revelation is very metaphorical, but I fail to see how studying the subject and it's interpetations is "dangerous" in and of itself.It's what people do with the information that they are given that warps the original work into what people want it to be.It's no worse than T.S. Eliot, which is far more abstract.
2006-10-20 15:45:43 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think it's more dangerous when people misconstrue the Bible and use it as an excuse to commit horrible crimes against others. Rape, murder, assaults, molestation, ect.
Given, these crimes are not committed by most Christians, but psychologicly disturbed people looking for an excuse.
2006-10-20 17:06:21 · answer #8 · answered by ravencadwell 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think so, mainly because some people won't ever seek the truth, they'll just accept what is said at face value. Take the DaVinci Code for example .... so many things he said were not true, yet some folks still accept it as fact.
2006-10-20 15:42:48 · answer #9 · answered by arewethereyet 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Marvel comics X-men had the four horses too--how can you misconstrue a book , when it cannot be read literally and has to be interpreted ? are you going to misinterpret it? what is the correct interpretation?--maybe the comic books are right and we just don't know it yet
2006-10-20 15:37:58 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋