[zeeba neighba]

Hearsay, won't stand up in court, sorry. Where is the hard evidence. We have, scripturally, "Greetings from Babylon". That speaks volumes.

[Bohemund]

Hearsay, won't stand up in court, sorry. Where is the hard evidence. We have, scripturally, "Greetings from Babylon". That speaks volumes.

It speaks volumes? What do you mean?

[annalex]

Babylon is code word for Rome, in accordance with the scripture that treats Babylone as a center of power with all kinds of iniquity. The actual Babylon ws a forgotten village in the 1 century, no reason for St. Peter to be there.

[Cronos]

Hearsay, won't stand up in court, sorry. Where is the hard evidence

Ok, so the Great Wall of China doesn't exist, acc to you? And neither does America or for that matter, any of the modern nations of the world?

We have, scripturally, "Greetings from Babylon". That speaks volumes.

And that was "code" for Rome. The original Babylon by that time was a ruined city so the term was used to signify another oppresor of the Jews. And this new "Babylon" was ruined too - pagan Rome was destroyed and in a fantastic truimph of God's will, was made into a center of Christendom.