: On what basis do you claim Revelation to be an allegory? I believe it is a literal prophecy of future events yet to occur in the near future. If I'm right, you lose everything for eternity. If you're right, I lose nothing.DDN: You lost me here. How does he "lose everything for eternity" just for thinking that the book of Revelations is an allegory? The Bible is a huge mishmash of allegory and literal events. Do you profess to know exactly which are which in every single case? And if so, who deemed you with such incredible psychic, spiritual, and intellectual powers to know what nobody else on the entire planets knows? i.e. which 10,000 stories and accounts are allegory and which are literal. If you are wrong in your GUESS about ANY of them do YOU also "lose everything for eternity"?
What does that MEAN anyway? That he'll go to hell just for making a perfectly logical guess about how to interpret one of the 50 books of the bible? I thought our destiny, according to christianity, was determined by whether or not we "accepted Jesus christ as our savior". Are you saying that I can be "born again" but if I ever suspect the book of Revelations to be an allegory I'll lose my eternal soul to the fires of hell eternal? Sounds like you are making up your own rules for how the universe works because this belief is not held by any branch of christianity or any christian I have ever encountered nor do I see this "rule" in the Holy Bible. So where exactly are you getting this rediculous bullsh_t from?
