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10 Feb 2011, 2:32 pm

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do you believe that the rapture will occur before or after the rise of this "antichrist?"


How does one get a "week" to be a year. In both Hebrew and Aramaic there are definite words for week and year and they have different meanings.

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10 Feb 2011, 3:06 pm

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How does one get a "week" to be a year. In both Hebrew and Aramaic there are definite words for week and year and they have different meanings.

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they lie to themselves. that's how.


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11 Feb 2011, 12:43 am

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Julian alias Juliana for people who worry about cognitive discord between contemporary and medieval feminine naming traditions is not the Cloud Author.

I now see why 1 John - but both Julian and the Cloud are interesting. Julian comes into my head more esily; my wife into both.


My mistake...I've not read either, then. :) I have a fair amount of sympathy for the Eastern/Byzantine interest in leaving some things mystery (instead of seeking to delineate and define them, as we Romans love to do)...is that essentially the idea of the Cloud?


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11 Feb 2011, 11:14 pm

Seventh-day Adventism is full of BS.



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12 Feb 2011, 12:04 am

ruveyn wrote:
waltur wrote:
woodss82 wrote:
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do you believe that the rapture will occur before or after the rise of this "antichrist?"


How does one get a "week" to be a year. In both Hebrew and Aramaic there are definite words for week and year and they have different meanings.

ruveyn


You little understand. You see, if you interpret the bible literally, then a week is seven days, a day is 24 hours, and that gets us through the creation.. NON-literal interpretation says the "days" are not 24 hours, but rather eras - like Age of Reptiles. Or else they say that there was a day of creation, then a pause of a few million years before the next one.But that is not literal and therefore is wrong and dangerous.

AND literal interpretation says that in Daniel a week is actually a year, but that not all the years are consecutive, there are long intervals betwen official weeks = years which do not count. And peopole who do NOT do literal interpretation try to say a week in Daniel is seven days.

Because Bib Brother also runs a church, and week means what Big Brother says it means and we don' need no stinking consistency.

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Personally, if a literal interpretation guy says creation is seven consecutive days [I am including the sabbath as part of the process here] of 24 hours each the same timespan as an hour on the atromic clock, I will not deny that I can believe God can do that.

But when he is literal ONLY where he feels like it and it meets his needs, he loses me.