2006-11-06 14:02:03 · 11 answers · asked by zaris 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Do I take them for Truth? Yes. Literal? How can you?
When a bird with fire coming from it's tail is mentioned. what was it he saw? a bird or a missile?
He obviously saw a missile with fire coming out. He didn't know what a missile was. Why is it mentioned like that? 2 reasons. people years ago would not have believed it any more than people don't believe birds with fire now.
Pretty simple really.
Good Q*.
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2006-11-06 14:13:32 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Absoultely not.
Revelation contains allegory, symbolism, and most of the verses can have triple meanings.
Much of it has been fulfilled.
The purpose of this book was to console the early Christians during the severest persecution ever known. The fear and paranoia that results from our present day profits of doom just shows they don't really do much consolling.
2 Peter 1:20 - interpreting Scripture is not a matter of one's own private interpretation. Therefore, it must be a matter of "public" interpretation of the Church. The Divine Word needs a Divine Interpreter. Private judgment leads to divisions, and this is why there are 30,000 different Protestant denominations.
2 Peter 3:15-16 - Peter says Paul's letters are inspired, but not all his letters are in the New Testament canon. See, for example, 1 Cor. 5:9-10; Col. 4:16. Also, Peter's use of the word "ignorant" means unschooled, which presupposes the requirement of oral apostolic instruction that comes from the Church.
2 Peter 3:16 - the Scriptures are difficult to understand and can be distorted by the ignorant to their destruction. God did not guarantee the Holy Spirit would lead each of us to infallibly interpret the Scriptures. But this is what Protestants must argue in order to support their doctrine of sola Scriptura. History and countless divisions in Protestantism disprove it.
2006-11-06 22:27:31 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Q: >>> This is for Christians only. Do you take the phrophecys in Revelations to be literal? <<<
Most of Revelation is symbolic, to things that what litterally happen.
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2006-11-06 22:14:12 · answer #3 · answered by DiscipleDave 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Even though there is a great deal of symbolism in Revelation, I believe the prophecy revealed in them to be literal events that will take place.
2006-11-06 22:06:09 · answer #4 · answered by paulsamuel33 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I do take them literally. They are in God's Word, which is the truth. All of the events in Revelation will happen.
2006-11-06 22:05:27 · answer #5 · answered by ironchain15 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ok; the book of Revelation is one (singular) revelation. That makes the book, the Book of Revelation...not the book of RevelationS.
2006-11-06 22:06:40 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, Otherwise there would be no purpose for God to put them in the bible for us Believers to Believe in! That is why I believe in the Prophecies in the book of Revelation's!
2006-11-06 22:27:10 · answer #7 · answered by jrealitytv 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, because it all means something. The great red dragon with 7 heads and ten horns, etc...it represents something and we take what it means literally. Not that there will be a real dragon with 7 heads....ghee whiz!
2006-11-06 22:17:11 · answer #8 · answered by Gail R 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yep sure do, but you have to understand them to believe them and take them back to Daniel chapter 7 to understand some of them.
2006-11-07 01:34:16 · answer #9 · answered by judy_derr38565 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes
2006-11-06 22:10:07 · answer #10 · answered by Not perfect, just forgiven 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋