Why are black people Christians?

That is the point, but you are welcome to ignore it.

Okay.  I'm not going to read several paragraphs.  Anything can be paraphrased in a sentence or two and that is what I would be willing to read.

The link had nothing to do with revelation, but reading it may have been a good idea if you wanted to understand.

I can't remember where I read about revelation being an historical account rather than prophecy, but it was interesting.

Revelation is an historic account.  And a current one.  And a future one.

pardon me.

solely historic.

Pedancy really is your forte isn't it.

Arrogance alert***

You are talking to a fellow Christian and acknowledged student of the Bible here.  Your arrogance is astounding! To be fair you may not know, being a newish poster that he was married to a minister of religion and takes his faith and the philosophies of religious thought very seriously.

ALSO, it does the Christian religion  no credit, in the middle of a thread about black people and slavery and Christianity, for it to devolved into a 'Chapter and Verse' contest in oneupmanship because IMHO it only shows up too clearly the exact criticisms many people have about the Christian Church and the Bible, because of the arguments exhibited here of differences in interpretation and the attitude you show to others in having a different interpretation to your own. It is unbecoming.

This is mostly why I do not discuss what I believe here too deeply, I have spent a large part of my life reading what I have read, and to summarize it in one or two sentences belittles the complexity of what I understand.

I have in the last few days been accused of being a wishy washy liberal new age Christian, I think that is the issue with talking with people who do not understand.  This is why I suggested that I might one day explain what I believed over a beer.

Hell I explained the base idea of the trinity a little while ago, and was rebuked, but when I asked why my stance was improbable I got no response. This saddens me as it makes this a place of judgement and competition as opposed to a place where discussions take place.

It's not arrogance this time, Goz.  The Bible unfolds for thousands of pages and over thousands of years.  The plan evolves within it's context.  In order to understand point Z, one must understand points A through Y.

I don't care what Gadreel does for a living or what his spouse does for a livng.  Gadreel has not proven that competence with me.

So when he asks me to quote chapter and verse for a complicated idea like how God has sanctioned different paths for believers to follow based on what period of time those believers actually lived, I'm already a skeptic.  Because anybody who truly understands the dynamic involved knows that it can't be framed by one chapter or even one book.  It takes a holistic approach to scripture to understand why God stops dealing with the Church in the future and starts dealing explicitly with the Jews again.  One needs to fully understand ages, covenants, prophecies, timelines and, most importantly, the varied and various reasons behind why the evolution occurs in the first place.  The very fact that he would even question it led me to believe that quoting one section of scripture would not be convincing to him.

Hold on, have you just presented you argument as "he  has to read heaps and heaps of stuff to understand" while just a minute ago you asked me to summarize what I presented in one sentence?

wow, you are quickly losing cred buddy.