Revelation not canonized

How would Christianity have unfolded had Revelation not made it into the New Testament? Would we have fewer end-of-time traditions and so forth?
 

Cryostorm

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I have no idea really except that you change fundamental evangelical Christianity of the last five hundred years, such as the Puritans and Baptists, because the end times are a huge portion of said sects.
 
I have no idea really except that you change fundamental evangelical Christianity of the last five hundred years, such as the Puritans and Baptists, because the end times are a huge portion of said sects.

And even bigger impact for Jehova's Witnesses. There might not be so much End of Days sects.
 
When would you do this? Since those aforementioned sects owe a lot to Protestantism, an equally big impact could be if Protestant Bibles cut Revelation out like they cut the deuterocanonical books out. Martin Luther, for instance, didn't think highly of it, nor did John Calvin. It doesn't seem too hard for Protestants to reject Revelation and therefore cut it out of the Bible.

It would be interesting how end times traditions develop without Revelation, since something like the Rapture relies on other parts of the Bible. But on the other hand, you'd be cutting out huge parts of the narrative common to most doctrines of the Rapture, so...

And thankfully, no one can write something like Left Behind or make those Z-grade no-budget Rapture movies if you cut out the drama involving God punishing Earth and Satan being chain in Hell forever and all that.
 
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