Greeting: Grace & Peace unto you from God & Lord JC.
Midst Discussion: bla bla black sheep -vs- scape goats
Salutation: The Grace of our Lord JC with you all. Amen.
Why does it open with "the Lord Jesus Christ",
but notably close with "our Lord Jesus Christ"?
Doesn't the NT also both open and close with JC?
What then is CJ? Why only used in the midst of NT?
Doesn't Revelation notably end with Paul's "token",
"the token in every epistle" written by his own hand,
as mentioned thrice in three other Pauline Epistles?
2007-11-11 03:10:10 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Paul's format is like a sandwich,
with grace and grace as bread,
and variety of things in between.
2007-11-11 10:52:05 · update #1
Revelation was written by John.
Written in own hand is a reference to the fact that he did not have his assistant write the letters.
2007-11-11 03:16:03 · answer #1 · answered by Christmas Light Guy 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
THE Lord Jesus Christ, aka GOD in the opening blessing indicates that the blessing from THE, signifying only.
OUR in the closing signifies community with others of the same belief in JC as Lord and God.
The distinction between JC and CJ is purely a matter of form. One can say red-head, or man with red hair. The meaning is the same: Jesus, the annointed.
Scholars far more deeply and intimately immersed in the sources of today's versions of scripture have concluded that Paul had no part in the composition of the book of Revelation. Though I would not have a problem believing that in the course of thousands of transcriptions of the text by scribes of the Roman Catholic Church over these 1700-odd intervening years some Pauline influence had crept in, I doubt your last conjecture.
Surely to choke on a gnat after swallowing a camel is the strangest of human behaviors.
2007-11-11 03:32:08 · answer #2 · answered by wordweevil 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most of the NT was not written by the people it is attributed to.
Much effort went into trying to copy the style of a particular piece of scripture to make the forgeries seem authentic.
Often these forgers work very hard to copy the stile of some other forgery.
Sad but true. Look it up.
Love and blessings Don
2007-11-11 03:17:07 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
That's a good question. It probably has more to do with the style of writing back then than anything theological.
2007-11-11 03:15:58 · answer #4 · answered by Pal 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Read some other books and stop immersing yourself in this dreary falsified document.
2007-11-11 03:19:40 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋