Faith in the Bible makes you think everything in it is true or makes sense.
I have faith in God and realize the Bible often needs interpretation -
What did it really SAY?
What is the best way to interpret what is said here?
Faith also reconizes "What is really essential here to grasp and believe? And what is less or non-essential, not AS pertinent?"
Presumption of the foolish sort you display assumes faith is blind naivete.
Meanwhile your world is rotting under your nose and some of us see Bible prophecy unfolding as we speak.
Faith realizes you have to trust someone eventually and Jesus Christ is the most avaialbe trustworthy one in human history to trust.
@sonship saidFaith makes you think that the design, structure, prophetic nature, and composition of the book of Revelation are such that it could not have been a calculated manipulative addition to the canon carried out by sane people who knew exactly what they were doing.
Faith realizes that the design, structure, prophetic nature, and composition of the book of Revelation cannot be discribed as "a madman's dream."
@sonship saidYour faith - and your personality - make you think that you can just suggest that I have described your beliefs as "blind naivete" - when I haven't - and call me "foolish", and that this low-grade banter genuinely tackles what we are talking about.
Presumption of the foolish sort you display assumes faith is blind naivete.
@FMF
Faith recognizes that the statement in Revelation 1:3 was indeed their experience - Blessed are those who read and those who hear the words of the prophecy and keep the things written in it, for the time is near.
Revelation shows us the climax of history.
Revelation shows where the universe is going.
Scoffing unbelievers in the word of God like you are totally clueless.
That is clueless and proud of thier cluelessness - like as if they had a choice.
Revelation is a book of the destiny of the universe.
You have to offer on that THICK DARKNESS of total cluelessness (with arrogance).
@sonship saidYes, I am fully aware of what your faith makes you think about Revelation.
Faith recognizes that the statement in Revelation 1 was indeed their experience - Blessed are those who read and those who hear the words of the prophecy and keep the things written in it, for the time is near.
Revelation shows us the climax of history.
Revelation shows where the universe is going.
@sonship saidScoffing totally clueless proud of thier cluelessness THICK DARKNESS total cluelessness arrogance foolishness clueless foolish self excusing ego totally clueless cluelessness
Scoffing unbelievers in the word of God like you are totally clueless.
That is clueless and proud of thier cluelessness - like as if they had a choice.
Revelation is a book of the destiny of the universe.
You have to offer on that THICK DARKNESS of total cluelessness (with arrogance).
By the way, your disdaining Revelation is only an excuse for not believing many simplier and less mysterious books in the Bible, like say the Gospel of Mark.
DIsdaining Revelation is just bribing the conscience with an excuse because SIMPLIER books you won't believe.
Few expect the first book of the Bible anyone fully gets is Revelation.
Your boasting that Revelation is huey is mostly an excuse that Mark or Luke you can't find anything believable in.
You point to Revelation to rationalize you needn't listen to anything is Psalms - a far simplier book full of comforting and positive evidence of God.
@sonship saidComing to the conclusion that Revelation is mumbo jumbo was just the thin end of the wedge.
By he way. disfaining Revelation is only an excuse for not believing many simplier less mysterious books in the Bible, like say the Gospel of Mark.
DIsdaining Revelation is just bribing the conscience with an excuse because SIMPLIER books you won't believe.
Few expect the first book of the Bible anyone fully gets is Revelation.
Your boasting tha ...[text shortened]... to anything is Psalms - a far simplier book full of comforting and positive evidence of God.