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I've read the 'Book of Revelation' a million times. It does not make sense, obviously. It needs to be decoded.

All human language draws its nature and value from the fact that it both comes from the Word of God and is chosen by God to manifest himself. But this relationship is secret and incomprehensible, beyond the bounds of reason and analysis.

Our purpose is simply to ask how theological principles can be shown to have usable secular analogues that throw light upon the nature of language.

Revelation is communication from God to His children on the earth and one of the great blessings associated with the gift and constant companionship of the Holy Ghost.

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

What use is revelation or religion if it doesnt change anything?

Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.

Unlike the interference of ordinary interest, power, or prejudice, which touches philosophy only at its outskirts and becomes at most a matter for philosophical tactics, the claim of revelation to the highest truth touches philosophy at its core and must affect its whole strategy.