[Dimensio]

Absolutley not. Read the last few verses of Revelatin 22 to see why.

I'm curious -- and I'm not trying to incite a flame-war here, but I'm wondering why the final verses of the book of Revelation are taken to apply to the entirety of the Bible. The New Testament of the Bible was assembled from various independent preexisting writings; it was not a single work created all at once. Shouldn't the final verse of Revelation only apply to the book of Revelation, since it was written as an individual piece and there were no real comprehensive scriptures known to the author outside of the Torah at the time?

[Alas]

I took his reference to abridged as meaning on of the new shortened versions of the bible, like the one put out by Readers Digest. In those, all of the books, including the Book of Revelation have been both edited and shortened.

[spoosman]

Good question on Rev.

Even with the more common interpretation, that did not stop people from writing their own book (and causing trouble). I am just glad Jesus did not write his own book. To me, that is what gives him credibility. People that write their own books, and start their own religions have no credibility, imo.