Re: OFF TOPIC Cultural relativity

[RC Macaulay]

Richard wrote..   > For the past two thousand years man has attempted to understand " > Revelation", the last book in the bible. Perhaps this emerging generation > will be given the insight of understanding this writing that promises a > blessing to all that study the letter from Jesus Christ to the nations. Why > did the writer use the word " study"   Leaking Pen wrote.. >  closer to 1700 years.  st john the divine is not to be confused with st john the baptist.  he lived in roughly 300 ad, and was of a judaic endtimes cult.  not a christian.  he talks not of a second coming, but of the first coming of the messiah, as he didnt believe jesus was the messiah.     just had to correct you there.   Pen.. you missed the point. Did you read Revelation ? Did you receive a blessing?          It is easy to debate the origin and the secretary that took the dictation... The African bishop Dionysius conjectured the writer was John the Presbyter ( not John the apostle which is clearly the secretary as confirmed by Justin Martyr a hundred years before Dionysius was born) whose name appears in other writings. Some still follow the belief of Dionysius but the external evidence overwhelmingly supports the traditional view that John the Apostle was the secretary .   Regardless, the wording is the issue. The person that put the words to paper took dictation direct from the angel of Christ Jesus as the writer so states. To present an argument over the " secretary" is irrelevant..   John the Baptist was not involved ,past being an early voice proclaiming Jesus has come in the flesh. The Baptist had his head served on a platter for daring to challenge a woman's right to marry her husband's brother .She had her daughter do an Arab version of a lap dance for hubbie # 2 in trade for the Baptist head, which only demonstrates times ain't changed much in the world.    Richard