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For the Christian: do you believe this is the Final act before believers reign with God on Earth for 1000 years or is this merely another chapter?

As a believer, I try to keep an open mind but I have no compelling reason to think that story is literally true.

I appreciate that the New Testament was INSPIRED by the word of God but is also subject to the full spectrum of human error in it's initial record, compilation, translation and interpretation. The authors of the New Testament tried to record stories about what people witnessed and tried to understand the context, but it's not necessarily accurate.

I focus more on simply trying to have a relationship with Jesus and relying on many of the time-tested truths of the bible - especially relating to traditional Christian family values.