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Naked Bible 430: John Walton on Demons and Spirits

The Naked Bible Podcast

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Where Do Second Temple Writers Get Their Ideas?

The waltons are operating from a fear based hermanutic. They deny old testament spiritual conflict because it means affirming supernatural beings in passages like genesis three and genesis one four, psalm 82 and psalm 29 and psalM 80. The new testament is part of second temple jewish literature. There's so much confict material. Where do the second temple writers get their ideas from? From? Nowhere. It's obviously not true. But since the new testament is full of that kind of thing, they have to affirm it against the old testament. Ani: I undersan stand this fear impulse that governs what the walton are doing here, because

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