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by krapp 1245 days ago
What's interesting about that is it's obviously only referring to the book of Revelations itself, since "The Bible" as such didn't even exist at the time, if it isn't a late addition. Yet Christians apply it to scripture as a whole.

Also, IIRC, Revelations almost didn't even make it into the Biblical canon, like a lot of other apocryphal books it was considered too crazy for the mainstream.
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dragonwriter 1243 days ago
> Yet Christians apply it to scripture as a whole.

I mean. some do, but, that’s hardly the only position.

http://actsapologist.blogspot.com/2016/05/how-does-catholic-...

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bazoom42 1244 days ago
The Bible did exist, just not the section called the new testament.
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krapp 1244 days ago
"The Bible" is a Christian invention. What existed was the Torah and other Hebrew texts, whose incorporation into Christian canon is based on retroactive continuity, and has never been recognized as valid within Judaism.
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bazoom42 1244 days ago
AFAIK Bible is from Greek and was used by Greek speaking Jews to refer to their sacred books.
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