Had a great time talking with ‪@DryApologist‬ about the problem of eschatological delay and whether or not Jesus was wrong about the timing of the kingdom.
"Many apologists in our time have been wont to argue as though the resurrection of Jesus had to be demonstrated to the disciples by tangible proofs such as would satisfy impartial investigators in a scientific age. In reality the first believers accepted the resurrection precisely because they were men for whom proofs of that kind had no interest. The power of their antecedent faith made it impossible for them to think of Jesus as one to whom death had put an end; they believed that he had been raised from death because otherwise they could not think of him as living. The 'how' of the raising troubled them not the least: that was God's affair." - Alfred Loisy
Matthew Hartke
Matthew Hartke
Had a great time talking with ‪@DryApologist‬ about the problem of eschatological delay and whether or not Jesus was wrong about the timing of the kingdom.
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Matthew Hartke
This has to be the best opening paragraph to any book on Jesus ever written. Strauss was an absolute legend.
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Matthew Hartke
"Many apologists in our time have been wont to argue as though the resurrection of Jesus had to be demonstrated to the disciples by tangible proofs such as would satisfy impartial investigators in a scientific age. In reality the first believers accepted the resurrection precisely because they were men for whom proofs of that kind had no interest. The power of their antecedent faith made it impossible for them to think of Jesus as one to whom death had put an end; they believed that he had been raised from death because otherwise they could not think of him as living. The 'how' of the raising troubled them not the least: that was God's affair." - Alfred Loisy
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