Posted 10/21/2018 03:37 am
You know this coin I always wondered about and a real catch 22 is set up in your head: Did Isaiah have a vision in the 8th century BC where he saw Jerusalem empty after the fall of the second temple of Jews 800 years later? And if that vision was just images of a future time, and a days pay for a Roman soldier was a denarius they say, was this particular series of coins so plentiful that he would write famously, "And her gates shall lament and mourn, and she shall be emptied out; she shall sit on the ground." Because she is sitting on the ground and lamenting and the Romans in Jerusalem probably at some point were spending it, in a city without Jews. Now the catch 22 is for a person to say, obviously this is quite a stretch and who knows what the man was talking about and implying he saw the future this way is just over the top. But then you open the door to saying that most of what Religion says is over the top and is that a place you want to be at?
