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maybe some people believe those things, but simply not true to grossly overgeneralize as those people because the bible is pretty clear about the mark of the be

• krapp 5y ago
  It is the same people taking a vague and cryptic text which was probably originally about Nero Caesar and applying the same flawed pins-and-string conspiracy theory reasoning to a few cherry-picked details in order to express their constant fear of the future. The bible says a lot of things about the mark of the beast that conveniently get ignored whenever evangelicals think they've spotted it, and they think they spot it all the time. They've never been right, and they're never going to be right.
  • trav4225 5y ago
    Yeah, the lack of a consistent interpretive hermeneutic for biblical texts is a big cause of this kind of confusion. Incidentally, there is a lot of scholarly support for the hypothesis that, in context, the forward-looking statements in the book of Revelation (and other New Testament texts) are largely or completely about first-century events (see topics such as preterism, covenant eschatology, full preterism, etc.). Understanding documents that were written thousands of years ago, in a cultural and linguistic milieu far different than that of western civilization, is difficult for modern westerners. People ought to study more before jumping to outlandish conclusions about the meaning of such texts.