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- proper noun biblical The final book of the
New Testament of theBible .
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"Re-reading" a religion's Revelation is code for "let's re-interpret it in the light of post-modern ideas".
Islamic feminists on the move Suzanne 2007
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Especially to the new departures, the turning-points, the epoch-making discoveries in ethical and religious progress connected with the appearance of such men, we may apply the term Revelation in a supreme or culminating sense.
Philosophy and Religion Six Lectures Delivered at Cambridge Hastings Rashdall
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We cannot, dare not, assert, that every male child of our population can read the Book which we call the Revelation of God! This deplorable, but undeniable fact, ought to throw suspicion upon our religious motives, as well as our pretensions to the love and maintenance of liberty, -- unless it be argued, that our liberty is founded on our want of education, and we are free men because the half of our population cannot sign their own name!
Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846 James Richardson 1828
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Revelation calls the dragon “that ancient serpent” (Rev 12: 9), but Jesus uses the same word “serpent” positively when he tells us “Be wise as serpents” (Matt 10: 16); obviously Jesus does not mean “Be like the dragon in Revelation or the ancient serpent in the Garden of Eden.”
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Revelation calls the dragon “that ancient serpent” (Rev 12: 9), but Jesus uses the same word “serpent” positively when he tells us “Be wise as serpents” (Matt 10: 16); obviously Jesus does not mean “Be like the dragon in Revelation or the ancient serpent in the Garden of Eden.”
Archive 2010-03-01 2010
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The book of Revelation is read in Roman and Anglican Churches only during Advent.
Frank Schaeffer: "End Times" Election Results Biblical Republican Paranoia Frank Schaeffer 2010
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Planet Earth groupies claimed Gorbachev was the Antichrist, citing the references in Revelation to the "mark of the beast" as proof because Gorbachev had a birthmark on his forehead!
Frank Schaeffer: "End Times" Election Results Biblical Republican Paranoia Frank Schaeffer 2010
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Revelation is perfectly accessible as a stand-alone novel.
Revelation: Summary and book reviews of Revelation by C.J. Sansom. 2009
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Planet Earth groupies claimed Gorbachev was the Antichrist, citing the references in Revelation to the "mark of the beast" as proof because Gorbachev had a birthmark on his forehead!
Frank Schaeffer: "End Times" Election Results Biblical Republican Paranoia Frank Schaeffer 2010
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The book of Revelation is read in Roman and Anglican Churches only during Advent.
Frank Schaeffer: "End Times" Election Results Biblical Republican Paranoia Frank Schaeffer 2010
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