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Results from: Answered Bible Questions, Answers, Unanswered Bible Questions, Notes Ordered by Verse | ||||||
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1 | rapture question | Matt 24:27 | bobmoy | 695 | ||
One of the levels that the Book of Revelation that the Holy Spirit reveals to those of us who have the spiritual gift of wisdom and apply the understanding of love to the analysis is that the book can be viewed as a story of the spiritual journey that we take as we "see" the Kingdom of God when we are born again and then proceed to "enter" the Kingdom of God as we evole into the spiritual beings that God wants us to be. Thus the "seven" churches are places on our own individual path to perfect love that we can overcome if we understand what each obstacle is. | ||||||
2 | rapture question | Matt 24:27 | kalos | 697 | ||
"Avoid spiritualizing or allegorizing the Bible. This is that which gives to the Bible some kind of mystical meaning. In other words, what is on the surface is not the meaning, but what is hidden becomes the meaning. This is very popular. Allegorizing means to say that the historical meaning is not the real meaning, and in fact may be nothing but a fabrication. The historical meaning is not the real meaning, the real meaning is the spiritual meaning hidden beneath the surface. . . . And once you say that something in the Bible is an allegory, that is it is only a symbol of the reality, you have just made it impossible to know what that reality is because if that reality cannot be discerned through the normal understanding of language, how can it be discerned?" . . . (from the radio message: "How to Study Your Bible: Interpretation" by John MacArthur on Grace to You broadcast) |
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