Some things here are just my opinions so...yea don't dwell much on it.
- The book of Revelations contains impenetrable apocalyptic visions that appear to be a memory of the destruction of Jerusalem. This was written by an unknown Jewish-minded Christian (is there any difference? Jewish minded and not but Chirstian all the same?) around 40 years after the fall of the temple. Yet also the Revelations is about the creation of a New Jerusalem. (Why's it always about Jerusalem...haha when I read it I thought it was for the whole world thus began the apocalypse fuss).
- But I knew this revelation was a big metaphor or something like that from the start. There's no way it's going to happen in the literal way. Maybe this is from a modern human's perspective but this is much more convincing especially since predictions or phrophecies had failed too many times already.
- Oh but the destruction indeed happened. The destruction of Jerusalem, at least. So it's now safe to assume that the bible's just really done for us all. *_* It's a record of the past events, just too tampered and well written compared to the others. Humans wrote it, and these humans didn't translate anything from God. They simply recorded the happenings.
- On James' part: He was 'played down' by the Roman Catholic Church. Considering he's the brother of Jesus, this is somewhat weird because right now we believe in Jesus but his brother was 'played down'.
- It was because these Roman Catholics wanted to make sure they look like they have a direct line of authority from even way back to Christ. This is where Peter and Paul comes in. This is the politics side, in my understanding. You see it may not look obvious but everything has a government side, even the religions, and all gov't side could play with dirty tactics. Although I still believe that the cleanest election's done by Popes, there's still a dirty side in it....that comes after the election. When you sat there to govern the church.
- It was logical to declare Peter as the first Pope because he was...as implied and directly said in the Bible, the sort of successor, right? So it's easy to believe that with James' character diminished and compressed to an almost irrelevant one, at least to any position.
- The Rosslyn Chapel in Scotland: This now holds the scrolls removed by the Templars. This was one great lesson as the authors had deducted the meaning of Rosslyn:
ancient knowledge passed down generations.
Simply put, whoever is associated must be/could be (nothing is for certain yet) a source of the truth in all these.
- I'm gonna stop at this part where the latin words on the archway of Rosslyn Chapel were carved:
Wine is strong. A king is stronger, women are even stronger.
But truth will conquer all.
- It doesn't make much sense now to me but why does it remind me of Sophie Neveu's grandpa's ritual from Da Vinci Code? *_* That doesn't make sense either.
