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-- David Ortiz (cyberpunk1986@gmail.com), November 28, 2005.

Has all bible prophecy been fulfilled? No. It's only when we DON'T take things literally that we run into problems. You say everything happened in AD 70 or everything is spiritual (a cop out).

-- David Ortiz (cyberpunk1986@hotmail.com), August 07, 2003

Answers

Kevin, if the Book of Revelations is figurative, then so must Genesis be figurative as well.

-- David Ortiz (cyberpunk1986@hotmail.com), August 21, 2003.

I'm beginning to think that it doesn't matter how a person understands Genesis--figuratively or literally. Each person is going to get the same meaning.

God has always existed.

God made everything.

Man was made in God's image.

Man sinned.

Man is to have dominion over the earth.

Evil roams the earth.

There are more meanings, but to think that Genesis was given to us so that we could explain how everything was made would probably be a naive thought. I don't think God needs to show how we were made; the dust/clay is all we need to know about our start. What is most important is that we can allow God into our "temple".

rod..

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-- rod (elreyrod@yahoo.com), August 21, 2003.

rod,

It is very important. I want to know exactly why Kevin thinks Revelations (the book of) is figurative and why Genesis is not. All other prophecies were literal, why should Revelations be figurative?

P.S.

I take them both literally.

-- David Ortiz (cyberpunk1986@hotmail.com), August 21, 2003.

David, my understanding is that Revelations is a long dream sequence filled with meanings that will eventually be revealed through actual events, but not necessarily as depicted in the Scriptures. (I am trying to view it from the "rapture" perspective.)

If the Pope is "slammed" as being something evil, why didn't Revelations just say it? Why all the symbolism?

This is why I keep saying that meanings will reveal themselves over time. It is all there in the Scriptures in a nice compressed "zip file" ready to be expanded one day. Go figure......sorry for the pun. Get it?....figur[ative]......?

rod..

-- rod (elreyrod@yahoo.com), August 21, 2003.

David,

The book of Genesis is NOT figurative however, there are MANY parts of the book of Revelation which ARE figurative AND highly symbolic as evidenced not only by its content, but also by the very first verse. Jesus Christ "signified" the message by his angel to His servant John. (Revelation 1:1).

-- Kevin Walker (kevinlwalker572@cs.com), August 22, 2003.