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Originally Posted by Nell
Further, I don't know how to respond to a group of Christians on a Christian website, who are questioning the inclusion of the book of the Revelation in the Bible, saying John was on an LSD trip when he wrote it
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Calm down sis. Of course I don't know if this John was on LSD. I just know that in those days when storing food was a problem (they didn't have plastic for example, nor refrigerators) ergot poisoning was common.
I don't think Revelation should be in the canon because there were many more such "apocalyptic" writings in those days, that weren't and aren't included in our canon. And it's unlikely all the writers suffered ergot poisoning. In the history of literature it's was a thing; a period called the age of Apocalyptic Writings - dating from circa 200BCE to 100CE -- Daniel was written around 200BCE and Revelation circa 100CE. Can you imagine what Christianity would be like today if all those apocalyptic writings were included in our canon? Can we say "completely bonkers?"
So thank God they weren't included. Revelation should have been among them ... as maybe something to be read, but not canonical. It's a mistake that Revelation made it into the canon. And that's obvious, when we judge that tree by its fruit, down thru the centuries.
Just stop and think for a moment sis. Down thru the ages every generation has taken the book of Rev. and applied it to their times. What do you think the audience it was written for back then thought of the book? They would have known it applied to Rome and Nero. Which it did. And the Roman Empire has fallen.
America is not Israel, and not the Roman Empire either. All have failed. And so will we. Every Rose blooms, withers, and dies. It's the way of nature, the way of human life, the way of civilizations ... the way of Gods' laws. And prayer doesn't change it. Any more than 30,000 praying in Texas brought the needed rain ; or that prayer causes the blood moons; that also come and go, by laws created by God ... no prayer or repentance required.