You said — The Church fathers would have been wise to omit Revelation from the Bible.
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Well, although this is a bit of “tongue in cheek” commentary..., it’s *also* typical of how some people *think* about God’s Word, in that it was something that the “church” put together, instead of it being “God’s inerrant, infallible, complete and total Word”.
If the “church” was in the position of creating it, then “yes” — perhaps they should have chosen something a bit more “clean” and understandable so they could control their parishioners a bit easier... LOL...
But, since it’s actually “God’s Word”, we don’t get to “pick and choose” what we want to put in there and take out of there...
a bit differently:
While we are in fellowship with God through faith in Christ, we seek His Word as He provides it. A wealth of wisdom is available through what God has provided in the revelation of our Lord and Savior Christ Jesus to John, while he was on Patmos as recorded in the book of Revelation, which contains His Word.
BTW, there is an admonishment in the last verses of that Book, which provide even greater emphasis on its veracity and importance, worthy for any person who doubts it, to consider before commenting upon it.
It’s interesting that Revelation is the only book of God’s Word that carries a curse for those who would add to or take away from it.
Placed at the end . . . it’s even conceivable that the curse applies to the whole of Scripture.
I wonder what level of that curse would apply to someone taking Revelation totally out of the Bible.
God have mercy.
That is precisely what a Muslim would say of the Kuran — a dream-sequence related by Muhammid to the scribes.