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Originally Posted by Original Position
You are talking about a particular theological doctrine, dispensationalism, which is common among evangelical Christians, but is an implausible interpretation of the Bible. This way of interpreting the Bible understands much of the final book of the Bible as a series of metaphors predicting current events and describing the near future as a grand cosmic battle between the heaven and hell.
My view is that this whole method of interpreting the Bible is pretty obvious crap. It also doesn't function as independently verifiable fulfilled prophecies because the text in the Bible they claim to be recently fulfilled are all to vague and metaphorical to be useful as evidence.
Yes it is common among evangelical christians to believe that and thus cannot be implausible imo. My friend the pastor has a 4 year degree in theology from a german university. They study the old and the new testament if I recall right. So this is a common believe as you said. They are looking at the same pages of the bible, Daniel and the book of revelation.
He could have become a catholic priest, only then he couldnt have a gf or wife among other things that didnt make this a real option.
I took a quick look at the biggest megachurches in the US and can only make out evangelists, no catholics at the top ranks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o..._United_States
If you are talking christians, there is only a few options:
-evangelists/babtists
-catholics
-and some other smaller subforms-mormons, jehovas whitnesses,etc.
If you listen to my ex gf she will tell you the catholics are all satanists.
While I agree that some, if not most of the old testament is outdated.
It is all the same the bible. I dont agree with a lot of things the catholic church did. If you ask me they were just a bunch of exploiting, greedy, racists, who forced their believe on several nations. It was believe or die. The enslavement of nations and murder in the name of god. Nothing that I can agree with. I do not despise modern catholics to be clear. I have respect for them, know people that are catholics, there is nothing wrong with them. I question what the church did in the past.
Then came the protestants, who as the name says were protesting these injustices in the church. They are making up, the majority now, and are reading the bibles last pages.
I do not think these pages of the bible can be considered crap, if its what the majority of christians believe in.
Last edited by washoe; 11-27-2020 at 03:19 PM.