Something creepy

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

My main thought is that I ought to get around to an in depth study of Revelation someday soon. Eschatology has never been a primary interest of mine as ideally a Christian should live their life both as if each day were their last and as if they had a myriad of more left to live. (That's a rule of thumb that applies to most people regardless of their religion.) I've done Isaiah and Daniel and I'm in the middle of the Twelve Minor Prophets right now. (I use the traditional Jewish division of the OT into 24 books because I think it likely that's what the 24 elders of Revelation 4 represent.)

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

It is odd that snowguy's apparently gone all Gnostic on us.  It's even odder he's basing this on the canonical New Testament and on the Gospel of John in particular.  If anything John is the most anti-Gnostic of the gospels as it was written late enough that it addresses some of the proto-Gnostic heresies head on.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

It is odd that snowguy's apparently gone all Gnostic on us.  It's even odder he's basing this on the canonical New Testament and on the Gospel of John in particular.  If anything John is the most anti-Gnostic of the gospels as it was written late enough that it addresses some of the proto-Gnostic heresies head on.

Well...couldn't you argue that both john and the gnostics are right...but they don't like each other because they understand it differently?  Or perhaps John truly understood it...and made course corrections to the gnostics? 

Not really. Gnostics argued for Jesus being noncorporeal and the inherent evil of physical matter. John testifies that Jesus was present physically and of the inherent good of the cosmos that God created.