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Is the Christ of Revelation Out for Blood?

Misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman

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Why Are You Using Symbolism?

John of Patmos is upset because a woman he calls Jezebel has been teaching people it's okay to eat meat that has been sacrificed to idols. And as we discussed earlier, he says Christ tells this prophetess that he will throw her on a bed and then kill her babies. Why do you need to torture and kill everybody? The imagery speaks a lot about how this person is imagining Christ and how he's imagining God.

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