Posted by Liberty [Liberty] on November 08, 1999 at 07:16:51 {Nq8EnQ8RVAMwiuh6GymAdHqlgCajU.}:
In Reply to: The mark of the beast. posted by Gemima on November 08, 1999 at 04:59:19:
When I was associated with the J.W.s I used to drive myself to complete frustration trying to make sense out of the Bible. You are not having trouble understanding Revelation because you are stupid or evil, you are just guilty of not comprehending the incomprehensible. There is nothing to understand in this madness. These scriptures are the ravings of madmen. There is no Divine inspiration found in this book. If God had an important life-saving message for humanity why would it be buried in this written mess of a puzzle that no one can figure out? Yes, no one can figure it out. That is why there are thousands of Christian sects and as many interpretations of the meaning all claiming they have had the "Truth" for 2000 years. Nothing fortold by any of them has ever come true in the last 2000 years and it won't come true in the next 2000 years because it's not real.
For something that is as important as the final judgement and the End of the World why would God choose a book that has always been unknown to the vast majority of mankind and remains so to this day? He(God) must be very cruel if we are to believe His judgement of us humans is based upon our understandings of obscure codes,symbols,dreams,and visions spelled out in ancient books. The simpler explaination is that there are no hidden meanings or messages for us in the Revelation. How can we be held responsible by a loving God for being skeptical of that which we honestly do not understand? Weird sects like the Watch Tower Society and Branch Davidians and others too numerous to mention were all born because they thought they had the answers and I think their track record speaks for itself. Seek real observable truths instead of unsolvable puzzles made by madmen and "solved" only by more insanity. Don't waste your one precious life on the unreal pipe dreams of fanatics. Enjoy your search for real truth, Liberty