Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 14:29:09 08/17/02
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On August 17, 2002 at 17:07:24, Alvaro Jose Povoa Cardoso wrote: I'm not sure some of the stuff you said is 100% true, but like you said, here goes :) >This is quite off topic, but here it goes. >I'm not catholic, but I know a few things about the Bible. >To answer directly to your question the woman who rides the beast is the 'False >Religion World-wide Empire'. In the Bible it is represented by a whore because >she has been maintaining imoral relations with Earth's kings (or governments). >In History you can confirm this. Many times religion and politics had been >together, wich by God's opinion (expressed in the Bible) this is wrong. Where is this expressed in the Bible? Does it say specifically that this is wrong, or is this a conclusion drawn from a prophetic book like Revelation? >Just >take Jesus Christ as an example: When some jews tried to make him their king, he >run away. In fact that was one of the reasons the jews rejected Christ. They >were expecting a Messiah that would free them from Rome, someone that would lead >them to victory over the opressor (Rome). I don't think this is evidence that God is against religion and government mixing. Jesus simply meant something different when he said he was king and would save everyone. >By biblical standars the true religion should not be concerned with wordly >matters (politics, army, pagan celebrations, etc). All throughout the old testament God is leading people in war, leading kings (politics), and so on. While political domination or domination by force (war) isn't something that should be striven for (by Biblical standards), I think it's an overstatement to say that God isn't concerned with those things. Russell
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