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Originally Posted by Sabellius
I think you are trying to stack the deck, and then answer your own questions. That's about as sharp as a bowling ball.
Is this a literal depiction of heavenly events?
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I'd say it it primarily symbolic, since
1... it's a vision, and
2... Jesus is shown as being a lamb with seven eyes, etc.
Yet a) Jesus has never literally had seven eyes, and b) Jesus is obviously not an actual lamb...the lamb John saw simply
symbolized His role as the Lamb of God.
The entire vision is rich with symbolism, so it would be inconsistent or even intellectually/theologically dishonest for someone to claim that the
Rev. 5 passage is somehow supposed to depict a separation of persons in the Godhead. Hardly. The passage is essentially depicting Jesus, in His relation to the Father, receiving the scrolls from His Father, and receiving the authority to open them and to preside over the sequence of divinely-directed endtime events that follow each scroll's opening. The passage is meant
to show the power and authority invested in Jesus by His Father; it is
not a "Godhead scripture" by any means, although so many Trinitarians try to make it one.
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