Quote from: The Prodigal on 10 September, 2013, 09:00:08 AM
I am getting flash backs here to my Northern Irish protestant upbringing filled with Hal Lindsay's takes on Revelation, implanted micro-chips and war against the soviet union.
Revelation is a strange book. There is a very good chance that it wasn't aspiring to be prophetical in any futurist sense at all with its application directed entirely elsewhere.
Hal Lindsey is likely totally correct in his interpretation of some eschatological matters, but that's another story... onto the main event, to quote verbatim (NIV);
The Revelation from Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show his servants what must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, 2 who testifies to everything he saw—that is, the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ. 3 Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear it and take to heart what is written in it, because the time is near.
So exactly which part of the above doesn't "aspire to be prophetical in any futurist sense", Prodigal dude? I love ya dearly and the back-and-forth we've had over time, but if you don't mind me saying so, I sometimes wonder why you even bother calling yourself a Christian at all... do you believe the Bible is inerrant, infallible, and divinely inspired? If not, you're not a Christian, period... the others on this forum I'd expect the usual nonsense from - the blind leading the stupid basically - but you always were a voice of sanity and reason even though I strongly but respectfully disagree with you on many matters, political and spiritual, if you call yourself by someone's name, it's reasonable to believe in that person's doctrine, no?
God bless you Prodigal my friend, I hope our paths cross one day, and to everyone else here, well... whatever, haha, see y'all in the funny pages...