Tag: Revelation

• Armageddon

  Is the ‘Rapture’ in the New Testament? NO it isn’t, is the short answer! It made its arrival in the year 1833 in the fertile, if fantastical, imagination of a one time Irish Anglican priest called John Nelson Darby, founder of the ‘Plymouth Brethren’ movement. From there, it was ‘read into’ various parts of the…

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  30th Mar 2023

  Christianity, Literature, Mythology, New Testament, Old Testament, Religion

  Apocalypse, Bart Ehrman, Daniel, Eschatology, Gospel of Mark, J N Darby, New Testament, Old Testament, Revelation, The Rapture

• Jesus on the Sea of Galilee

  Following on from my previous posts about the Feeding of the 5000 being a parable rather than historical, the same can be said about Jesus on the Sea of Galilee. He’s said to have instantly calmed its stormy waves – “a windstorm arose on the sea, so great that the boat was being swamped”. Normally,…

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  11th Feb 2023

  Christianity, Hebrew Bible, Jesus of Nazareth, Literature, Mythology, New Testament, Old Testament, Religion

  Chaos, Exodus, Flood, Galilee, Genesis, Jesus, Myth, Order, Revelation, Walking on Water

• A Hit or a Myth?

  A myth can also be a hit, with multiple applicability in different contexts and at different times and places. Unfortunately, when some people today say that something is a ‘myth’, they mean it isn’t true. The original and true meaning of ‘myth’, however, is just the opposite. Myths are stories containing ‘supernatural’ elements, which paint…

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  23rd Dec 2020

  Hebrew Bible, Literature, New Testament, Old Testament, Religion

  Marduk, Myth, Revelation, Sea of Galilee