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To: Ripliancum
Against my better judgment, I will offer one bit of scriptural advice

If you truly knew your Bible, you'd know that the last book of Scripture is in fact called "Revelation", as in "The Revelation of St. John The Divine."

Good night.

112 posted on 03/21/2010 9:21:10 PM PDT by Colonel_Flagg (No apologies.)
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To: Colonel_Flagg
Hi Colonel. It wasn't compiled in the order it was written. Scholars of our day acknowledge a number of New Testament “books” that were almost certainly written after John’s revelation on the Isle of Patmos was received. Included in this category are at least the books of Jude, the three Epistles of John, and probably the entire Gospel of John itself.

Further, as one Evangelical Scholar wrote: “On what biblical or historical grounds has the inspiration of God been limited to the written documents that the church now calls its Bible? . . . If the Spirit inspired only the written documents of the first century, does that mean that the same Spirit does not speak today in the church about matters that are of significant concern?”

Lee M. McDonald, The Formation of the Christian Biblical Canon, rev. ed. (1995), 255–56.

You have a good night too.

116 posted on 03/21/2010 9:32:21 PM PDT by Ripliancum (I'm not ignoring you, just taking good counsel. - Proverbs 15:1-4)
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