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Who does the Whore of Babylon stand for?

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Who does the Whore of Babylon stand for?

The Whore is associated with the Antichrist and the Beast of Revelation by connection with an equally evil kingdom.

The word "Whore" can also be translated metaphorically as "Idolatress".

The Whore's apocalyptic downfall is prophesied to take place in the hands of the image of the beast with seven heads and ten horns. There is much speculation within Christian eschatology on what the Whore and beast symbolize as well as the possible implications for contemporary interpretations.
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Whore of Babylon - Wikipedia

Some say that the Whore of Babylon refers to the Catholic Church.
I don't think so.
What do you think?
 
Rumpel said:
Who does the Whore of Babylon stand for?



Whore of Babylon - Wikipedia

Some say that the Whore of Babylon refers to the Catholic Church.
I don't think so.
What do you think?
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My X _ wife


Do you know the difference between a whore and a bitch?????


A whore screws everyone.

a bitch screws everyone but me.
 
False religion in general...what other org. sits upon many waters of the earth and commits fornication with the kings of the earth? Revelation 17:1-5...the dominant religious organizations have made it a practice to consort with political rulers for power and material gain, though this has resulted in suffering for the common people...their higher clergy live in luxury, even though many of the people to whom they should minister may be impoverished...
 
Yasureoktoo said:
My X _ wife


Do you know the difference between a whore and a bitch?????


A whore screws everyone.

a bitch screws everyone but me.
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Never heard that one.
 
RAMOSS said:
I think that most of the Book of Revelation is talking about the Roman Empire.
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Could it be that his "Book of Revelation" is just a lot of esoteric nonsense?
 
Rumpel said:
Could it be that his "Book of Revelation" is just a lot of esoteric nonsense?
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It definitely was not speaking plain. It almost didn't make it into the Christian canon, and honestly, I think Christianity would have been better off without it.
 
Rumpel said:
Who does the Whore of Babylon stand for?



Whore of Babylon - Wikipedia

Some say that the Whore of Babylon refers to the Catholic Church.
I don't think so.
What do you think?
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I think you're asking people to comment on detail plucked from the closing chapter of a book in a series series of books that most of the respondents never read and fewer understand or care to understand.

I am one of the many that have not read the whole book, don't understand most of what I have read and certainly cannot place the details of the part you cite in any relevant perspective.

You might as well ask people read a sentence from the epilogue of "The Tempest" and ask people who have never read Shakespeare to render opinions on his sonnets.
 
code1211 said:
I think you're asking people to comment on detail plucked from the closing chapter of a book in a series series of books that most of the respondents never read and fewer understand or care to understand.

I am one of the many that have not read the whole book, don't understand most of what I have read and certainly cannot place the details of the part you cite in any relevant perspective.

You might as well ask people read a sentence from the epilogue of "The Tempest" and ask people who have never read Shakespeare to render opinions on his sonnets.
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In general - yes.

But aren't we here in the part of the forum meant for religious topics?
 
Yasureoktoo said:
Drive through Beverly hills and count the pretty girls.
Then do the same in Watts.
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So you're saying the world's oldest profession is alive and well in the USA. I'll accept that.
 
Rumpel said:
I do not think so either.
But some fundamentalist evangelical Christians think so.
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Yeah. Turns out the "all-knowing" Jesus/Yahweh can't write with the coherence of a modern Middle School student, so nobody can quite understand what they're trying to say in their storybook. Which explains the thousands of different denominations of Christianity.

It's interesting reading posts where Christians are disagreeing on this forum, and both are busy quoting from the bible in an attempt to prove the other wrong.
 
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Rumpel said:
In general - yes.

But aren't we here in the part of the forum meant for religious topics?
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Of course.

I have found that discussions pre-internet regarding almost anything were robust excursions of passion free of fact or points of reference. It was colder/warmer/wetter/dryer in the 30's/40's/50's/60's.

The internet has short circuited many of those conversations. Actual, authoritative knowledge introduced into discussions is sometimes helpful and sometimes not.

I was only observing that analyzing a few words from Revelations without a clear understanding of everything that comes before it seems like a good path to error or intentional misdirection.

I could be wrong.
 
code1211 said:
I was only observing that analyzing a few words from Revelations without a clear understanding of everything that comes before it seems like a good path to error or intentional misdirection.
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Getting that "clear understanding of everything that comes before it" is obviously impossible as proven by the thousands of different denominations of Christianity, each disagreeing on exactly what the bible says.

I could be wrong.
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Demonstrably so.
 
JustHanging said:
Getting that "clear understanding of everything that comes before it" is obviously impossible as proven by the thousands of different denominations of Christianity, each disagreeing on exactly what the bible says.



Demonstrably so.
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You're funny. Utterly devoid of understanding on this topic and probably happy to be so.
 
RAMOSS said:
It definitely was not speaking plain. It almost didn't make it into the Christian canon, and honestly, I think Christianity would have been better off without it.
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I fill the same. If they can say the gospel of Thomas is false do its gnostic leanings then they could say the same for this book.
 
Sacred scriptures are recorded for the benefit of the present, primarily.
They apply to future generations, only in regard to how they apply to the present.
They are meant to be timeless. There is little doubt of that.

For 1500 years Revelations had not a bad thing to say about RC.
So now (last few hundred years) some Christians want to believe there are prophetic passages, that had little or no meaning for the first 1000 years or so.

During that time, the void was filled with other interpretive warnings, that have been lost to time, as these will be, 1000 years from now.
 
JustHanging said:
Yeah. Turns out the "all-knowing" Jesus/Yahweh can't write with the coherence of a modern Middle School student, so nobody can quite understand what they're trying to say in their storybook. Which explains the thousands of different denominations of Christianity.

It's interesting reading posts where Christians are disagreeing on this forum, and both are busy quoting from the bible in an attempt to prove the other wrong.
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The same is true for the founding fathers of the USA.

Spent all that time writing the constitution, and ten different people have ten different understandings for what it means.
 
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