• kromem@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Right, someone who encourages neighbors to love each other like themselves will be the anti- Christ.

    I’d kind of be curious to have some prominent ‘Christians’ rewrite the New Testament without being able to look anything up.

    Just WTF do they think is actually in there?

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      Genuinely? They believe that when peace happens there it is the final sign of the end times and the second coming is literally happening. And yes… It will be the work of the anti-christ because he is supposed to be some great world leader.

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        It will be the work of the anti-christ because he is supposed to be some great world leader.

        Which again really isn’t in there. The figure is mostly characterized as a religious figure.

        In fact, the descriptions in 2 Thess 2 pretty accurately describes Paul himself (which was effectively narcissist projection), who literally was going around telling people not to listen to other versions of Jesus from the one he was telling them about, and there’s even a decent argument the version he’s combatting in Corinth was better tied to a historical a Jesus than the canonical one.

        They’ve so heavily fanfictioned their own beliefs it’s become utter nonsense even relative to the source materials.

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        Honestly, I think that’s meant to be a figure of speech.

        Keep in mind that I am not religious, but I do have extensive knowledge of the bible, revelations comes of as either a fever dream or a really heated analogy.

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      1 year ago

      ngl, we just threw in a couple of chapter of Narnia into this thing and called it a day… - Bible Revisionists probably

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      “Just say you believe that Jesus died for you and you get into heaven regardless of how you act or do”.

      That’s the entire book.