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1 | Creation, feminism, and equality. Oh my! | Gen 3:15 | phruubeljiie | 65921 | ||
The maddening thing about Revelations is that there are two women associated with the Dragon; Mary (symbolizes Jerusalem) and the woman who symbolizes Babylon. Of course, Babylon is greedy and desires physical finery like gold and silk and perfumes. However, her gender remains. So are women are just both ends of the spectrum, the absolute good and the absolute evil, or am I looking too far into this? | ||||||
2 | Creation, feminism, and equality. Oh my! | Gen 3:15 | Emmaus | 65940 | ||
phruubeljiie Think more of the Whore of Babylon is to the AntiChrist, as to the Church, the Bride of Christ is to Christ. The woman in Revelation 12 also represents the Church and Israel as well as Mary who in Catholic theology also symbolizes the Church and the fulfillment of Isreal and the concept of "daughter Zion" in the Old Testament. The devil (evil) always presents a counterfeit of the good. He presents himself as an "angel of light," (2 Corinthians 11:14) when in fact he is the prince of darkness. The essence of temptation is to present an option that in itself seems appealing and good, but in reality is evil because it takes the place of the greater fgood that God has in mind for us. Pick a subject good created by God; food, sex, medicinal drugs, etc.: when taken out of their proper God given context they can still appear good and appealing but in fact be sin, such as gluttony, fornication, drug addiction, etc. The tempter never says "Let's go get into trouble!" He always presents it as "Lets have some fun! It won't hurt anybody." Gen 3:1-7 Emmaus |
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