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Well since the Roman church
destroyed any documents which did not agree with their
theology, we will never know this will we? Why do you keep
going back to what Men said, and not look at the word of God
and see if the people you are basing your faith on had it right
or not?
The early Church all believed in the Trinity, and Revelation was
a document written to the early Christians, not a document for
centuries later to interpret in terms of their own age. Anything
still future is clearly indicated by the context, as in Revelation
21 and 22.
The early Church age concluded in 381 with the First Council of
Constantinople, and brought to a perfect summation and
summary the Faith of the early Church: the Holy Creed of 318
Orthodox Christian Fathers. In Erie PA Scott R. Harrington
PS Why do you listen to people like John Nelson Darby, C.I.
Scofield, John F. Walvoord, Clarence Larkin, Tim LaHaye, Hal
Lindsey, Jack Van Impe, John Hagee, whose ideas on
eschatology/ Bible prophecy have all been proved many many
times to be utterly and completely false. Do you listen to
people like that?
Christ is coming again. Leave it at that. Take care.
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destroyed any documents which did not agree with their
theology, we will never know this will we? Why do you keep
going back to what Men said, and not look at the word of God
and see if the people you are basing your faith on had it right
or not?
The early Church all believed in the Trinity, and Revelation was
a document written to the early Christians, not a document for
centuries later to interpret in terms of their own age. Anything
still future is clearly indicated by the context, as in Revelation
21 and 22.
The early Church age concluded in 381 with the First Council of
Constantinople, and brought to a perfect summation and
summary the Faith of the early Church: the Holy Creed of 318
Orthodox Christian Fathers. In Erie PA Scott R. Harrington
PS Why do you listen to people like John Nelson Darby, C.I.
Scofield, John F. Walvoord, Clarence Larkin, Tim LaHaye, Hal
Lindsey, Jack Van Impe, John Hagee, whose ideas on
eschatology/ Bible prophecy have all been proved many many
times to be utterly and completely false. Do you listen to
people like that?
Christ is coming again. Leave it at that. Take care.
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Like I said before. Half the stuff in the book of
revelations could not have happened yet, It would have
been impossible. Interpreting scripture takes logic as
well as reasoning. If something could not have
happened yet, It is reasonable to assume it has not
happened yet. And to say it has happened, because a
bunch of men in the 1800 years ago said it did, is not
reasonable at all[/quote]
And to say it has not yet happened, because a man
almost 200 years ago said that most of Revelation is still
in the future, does not make it true, does not make it
the truth! Why should we believe John Nelson Darby,
when he did not start preaching his pre tribulation
rapture theory until Margaret MacDonald in Scotland
had her pre tribulation vision?
In Erie PA Scott
It is not proven that most of Revelation did not happen yet.
That is an unproven assumption, and it is wrong in comparison
to Revelation 1:1, which says these things must shortly come to
pass. So, these things that John was writing about came to
pass shortly after John wrote Revelation, and that would make
sense in the light of what happened in 70 AD. It makes no
sense at all if Revelation was written after 70 AD, it would not
be a prophecy, it would be history. And why would John write
"these things must shortly come to pass", if it was already
history? That is logical, for those of you who demand logic, it
doesn't make sense that Revelation was written after 70 AD. It
talked about the temple in Revelation 11. So, when John wrote
Revelation 11, the temple was still standing, and that would
have been in the years before 70 AD. Take care.
In Erie PA Scott R. Harrington