Re: Revelations
Thor Cameron (my_colours@hotmail.com)
Tue, 06 Jul 1999 12:50:52 -0700 (PDT)
> > Unfortunately, interpreters can't be trusted -- the text can't be
> >trusted. Deconstructionist theory of the 20th century has shown that
> >a
> >text can be interpreted to mean anything we want it to mean.
>The examples of war and poverty given in the
>book of Revelation, however, are pretty extreme. We're talking a third
>of the entire population of the earth in some cases. This would clearly
>be far beyond the scope of anything humanity has ever experienced in the
>past.
OK, you're slipping through your own loophole. A text CAN be
misinterpreted, which is why your statement abou 1/3 of the world isn't
right. Back then, the known world was a LOT smaller. To them, the Persian
Gulf War would have been a world war. The destruction in biblical
prophecies are nothing compared to what we can imagine now, after The Bomb.
They couln't conceive of such destruction. We're reading it with eyes of a
2,000 year older society. These prophecies need to be read interms of their
contemporaries, or we just end up reading it & predicting the end of the
world in 1979.
Thor
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