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Originally posted by Scot
Quote: Originally posted by Me Died Blue
I understand it to be specifically referring to someone attempting to add content to the Book of Revelation.
| I've heard that interpretation before. I disagree because the Bible is one book. Revelation does not stand on it's own. If you add to the book of Revelation, you've added to the entire Bible.
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Indeed, if someone attempts to add content to the Book of Revelation, they would be adding to the New Testament (and thus the Bible) as a whole. But the converse is not true, namely that someone who claims to receive words from God apart from the Bible would be specifically adding to the Book of Revelation.
That distinction is why the meaning of the "book" to which John refers is so important as well. All of God's Word is inerrantly inspired, but it is also always consistent with the context of time and culture in which it was written. In light of that, think specifically of the people reading Revelation shortly after it was written. There is no possible way for them to have understood his warning to refer to anything other than the book itself, as the New Testament had not yet been canonized into one book.