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To: Stingray
Wrong. He did not say it was like a city 1500 miles wide. He said it was a city 1500 miles wide.
13 posted on 01/28/2015 7:38:30 AM PST by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: ShadowAce

“He did not say it was like a city 1500 miles wide. He said it was a city 1500 miles wide.”

And as I “said”, he was writing hyperbole. It’s no different than saying, “That truck is a monster!” Really? Is it literally a “monster?”

No. And neither is Christ’s kingdom bound by city borders 1,500 miles on each side. John was using a figure of speech. Understand?


19 posted on 01/28/2015 7:46:10 AM PST by Stingray (Stand for the truth or you'll fall for anything.)
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To: ShadowAce

Numbers in the Bible are largely symbolic. That’s why you see the same ones over and over.
If you take them as strictly literal, you miss the message being given.


20 posted on 01/28/2015 7:46:11 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you are not part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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