Dear FRONTLINE,

Most Christian scholars take issue with many of the show's statements. One glaring one is that the Gospels were written in the ninetys. Recently discovered papyrus and other analysis has been able to date them much earlier. The whole tone of the commentators was rather patronizing as if to say,"oh look how cute these poor stupid people are-how quaint". Christians deserve better treatment and more accurate scholarship.

Steve Schubart
Cincinnati, Ohio

Dear FRONTLINE,

Your ignorance on the subject of the end times and the Antichrist is beyond belief. The book of Revelation is PICTURE LANGUAGE. Don't take it literally! Without a complete and deep knowledge of the rest of scripture, you cannot hope to interpret this part of scripture. You can't ask a 1st grader to read and properly interpret War and Peace! When you bring on "experts" who don't know and/or don't believe the other parts of scripture, how can you get Revelation right?

Alot of your comments and your guests comments are skewed, contain half truths, and some are just plain wrong! I suppose it makes for better television if you only tell the sensational lie instead of the truth.

P.S. By the way, THE Antichrist is spoken about in Daniel 11:36-39, II Thessalonians 2:1-12, and Revelation 18 also, not just in John.

Paul Karnopp
Thiensville, WI

Dear FRONTLINE,

The apocalytic vision could be symbolism which had its origins in devine revelation. The fact that it is symbolism does not mean that it does not come from God.
The apocalytic vision is a vision with God-like origins, just as God speaks to us in visions today.

Frederick Terry
coraopolis, pa 15108

Dear FRONTLINE,

Apocalyptic writings and the book of Revelation particularly are a blending of primarily "apocalyptic Hebrew and Greek myth." Though the story's plot and character should not be thought of as literally true, the story is quite true in the mythic meanings of such stories and their themes. Some of the prophecies were probably more "reports" of what had happened and were a part of the writers personal spiritual history than a divine prediction of future events. Innovations in technology and communication of the first century may be re-enacted in similar, more sophisticated innovations at the close of this millenium as a prelude to the next just as the sun has a tendency to insure the arrival of winter each year although it never arrives precisely in the way of the preceding years. Rather than be alarmed at the possibility of apocalypse, we should learn from the apocalyptic history of our planet. We certainly need the "tree of life" nourished by that miraculous "river" in the New Jerusalem in the last part of John's Revelation to foster inner perception and outer healing for the nations that populate this globe.

These interpretative types with their archetypal affinities can bridge the science of today with the world view of preceding eras. The first millenium apocalypse might be viewed as a "type" and the third millenium prospects of apocalypse as an "anti-type." The first might be a foreshadowing of the later. It seems to me Carl Jung was on to something with his concept of balancing the anima and animus much as St. Paul spoke of events in the first century as being exclusively neither male or female, bond or free, etc. Between the shadow and the self synonyms of the "soul" lies creatively a dramatic opportunity or destructive meladrama. The choice is ours. It seems to me that this, particularly, was what John was saying.

David Brown
Charleston, West Virginia