"I watched as he opened the sixth seal. There was a great earthquake. The sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red, and the stars in the sky fell to earth, as late figs drop from a fig tree when shaken by a strong wind. The sky receded like a scroll, rolling up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place."
(Revelations 6:12-14)
2007-07-19 12:42:06 · 11 answers · asked by HawaiianBrian 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Rose: you are equating the imagination of Revelation to the scientific theory of evolution? You might be confusing imagination with curiosity and thirst for knowledge and answers.
2007-07-19 12:57:02 · update #1
SuperAtheist: you're saying the bible authors were on shrooms? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita
2007-07-22 00:00:27 · update #2
I'd say the guys who wrote it had imagination believers have naivety and delusion required to believe in it
2007-07-19 12:46:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
All of the things listed have happened in the earths past and you may have even been witness to some of it. Earthquakes.
Solar eclipse. A red moon. Meteor showers. Fruit shaken loose at the time of ripening.
As for the mountains being removed from their place, think plate tectonics and Pangea, albeit it happened a lot slower, but none the less violently.
The key here is all of these things occurring simultaneously.
Individually they are considered to be bad luck, omens or curiosities of nature. Combined at a specific point in time the represent command of these forces, directed by a singular entity. Combined they could scare the #*!$$# out of you. They are supposed to.
2007-07-19 19:57:06 · answer #2 · answered by harleygr62 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'm sure that believers have as much imagination as non-believers. As to the passage you are quoting it is written in a prophetic book. Books of prophecy are full of symbolic pictures that represent physical truths. Also the visions that prophets received they often cannot truly describe, that's why they use words such as "like" as in "like a scroll rolling up".
2007-07-19 19:47:10 · answer #3 · answered by Martin S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well there are a lot of believers in football stars & American idol.
I guess people need a leader or idol.
2007-07-19 19:46:58 · answer #4 · answered by ♣Hey jude♣ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
And read on, there is more. Some of what you read is about to happen very soon.
Maybe it's hard for you to believe but for me it's not. I personally have seen one of my future day. In the meantime I lived that day and it was exactly as I sow it. You can believe me or not, it's your choice. I can't prove it anyway.
2007-07-19 19:46:56 · answer #5 · answered by Even Haazer 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Not imagination, chum - drugs. Amanita, to be specific.
CD
2007-07-19 19:46:54 · answer #6 · answered by Super Atheist 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's the kind of stuff Peter Jackson should be making a movie about.
2007-07-19 19:44:54 · answer #7 · answered by ? 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
imagination? i bet the tsunami in the pacific rim looked a lot like this.
no real experience=no meaningful opinion
2007-07-19 19:46:34 · answer #8 · answered by chieko 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Those who believe in evolution as well as those who make up stories in what is called the bible nowadays both have wild imaginations.
2007-07-19 19:46:04 · answer #9 · answered by rose_ovda_night 4 · 1⤊ 4⤋
We have a heck of a Savior, too.
I love Jesus!
2007-07-19 19:56:23 · answer #10 · answered by batgirl2good 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋