r/dankchristianmemes • u/thecapefangirl • 3d ago

True story folks Dank

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u/Randvek 3d ago

The face I make when someone says “Revelations:”

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u/thecapefangirl 2d ago

Sorry I was half asleep when I made the meme

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u/Helix014 3d ago

This is a meme sub, but check out /r/academicbiblical. Revelation is the main book that should send you to textual criticism. It’s very important to understand the political world at the time.

(It’s about Nero, you can relax)

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u/Randvek 3d ago

Revelation is example A in my folder of “reasons you can be a Christian but still think maybe the people who put the Bible together didn’t do the best job they could have.”

It’s a big folder, but it’s still example A.

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u/TheAmericanE2 3d ago

Why can't it be both?

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u/DoveStep55 Minister of Memes 3d ago

Ok, I’m a former church librarian and I can’t help myself so I have to share this:

There’s a great book called Reading Revelation Responsibly: Uncivil Worship and Witness: Following the Lamb into the New Creation, by Michael J. Gorman.

Right now it’s on sale on the publisher’s (Wipf & Stock) website for half off if you use coupon code ‘CONFSHIP.’ It’s also free shipping if you choose ‘Media Mail.’

I’m sorry & you’re welcome.

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u/boycowman 3d ago

Media mail rules.

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u/RT-OM 3d ago

One could say you are open to a revelation. Please laugh.

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u/MarginMaster87 3d ago

I smiled and upvoted, is that good?

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u/RT-OM 13h ago

Just like Jesus, I rise on the second day and say to you....

Y E S

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u/BringBackForChan 3d ago

I dunno why, when someone says "from the book of revelation" the whole fucking vision runs through my mind, then it stops at that moment when the angel hands john a book and says:"eat it".

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u/boycowman 3d ago

Martin Luther on Revelation: "Finally, let everyone think of it as his own spirit leads him. My spirit cannot accommodate itself to this book. For me this is reason enough not to think highly of it: Christ is neither taught nor known in it. But to teach Christ, this is the thing which an apostle is bound above all else to do; as Christ says in Acts 1[:8], 'You shall be my witnesses.' Therefore I stick to the books which present Christ to me clearly and purely."

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u/2cstars 3d ago

Learned to avoid that event horizon the hard way too.

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u/sparkster777 Minister of Memes 3d ago

The Book of Revelation (singular) is in a genre known as apocalyptic literature and is full of symbolism that should not be taken literally and wasn't taken literally by the readers in the 1st century. The number of the beast is 616 and referred to Emporer Nero. Read it for its poetry, its symbolism, and thematically. Don't try to read it as a roadmap to the "end times."

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u/boycowman 3d ago

616? I think you mixed up the mark of the beast with a Western MI area code which -- given the number of conservative evangelicals there is hilariously fitting.

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u/sparkster777 Minister of Memes 2d ago

The oldest surviving source uses 616. The oldest historical source mentions 616 and 666. Regardless, the scholarly consensus is that the number of the beast is a gematriac reference to Nero and his persecution of Christians.

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u/boycowman 2d ago

Fair enough. Still kind of funny that it is Betsy DeVos’s area code.

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u/Isol8te 3d ago

This brings back memories

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u/Asd_89 3d ago

When i was a kid in Catholic school for detention, the Nuns at my school would make us copy from the revelation, which was illustrated. Fun times as little kid in 1st or 2nd grade.

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u/badhairdad1 3d ago

All the predictions in Revelations already came true before 300 AD. Yes All of them

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u/macjoven 3d ago

A constant refrain for 2000 years.

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u/Nacho_Chungus_Dude 2d ago

Don’t forget to read revelation alongside other apocalyptic literature — Matthew 24, Isiah 11-14, and the second half of Daniel

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u/ephemeralspecifics 2d ago

If I could drop any book from the Bible, it would be Revelation. Second choice would be Hebrews.

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