136. Jesus the Peacemaker vs. Jesus the Executioner // with Bart Ehrman
The New Evangelicals Podcast
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The History of Apocalyptic Literature
Apocalyptic literature is almost always to explain why the people of God are suffering. The genre came into existence because of things happening about 200 years before Jesus in Israel, he says. "A lot of conservative Christians don't understand that the prophets are not predicting what's going to happen in the distant future"
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