Bart Ehrman on Armageddon

The writer of the Book of Revelations was advocating for things that went starkly against what Jesus himself is purported to have said.

One of the reasons Revelations was included in the Bible was because it could be used to argue for the Trinity.

Revelations was written to specific Christians who felt that they were being persecuted by the Roman Empire, and it was promising that the good Christians would triumph and God would punish the persecutors.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80QVZsWjtis

You can’t be liberal & claim to be Christian

The Bible doesn’t clearly support liberal or conservative ideology. It is written in different times by different authors, it contradicts itself, it doesn’t line up with any modern ideology, and doesn’t clearly give direction on most, if any, modern political issues.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUi1906TiAU

While defending the current war on Iran, a US senator said we have a Biblical responsibility to Israel. 

While defending the current war on Iran, a US senator said we have a Biblical responsibility to Israel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkpWi10Yp_8

Responding to the claim the Trinity is “unavoidably biblical”

Generations of Christians went by before the idea of the Trinity was created. In much of the Bible, Jesus is treated as separate from God, but in some places, Jesus is more identified with God. The Trinity is an attempt to unify the different perspectives as one, but is not clearly spelled out in the Bible. The Biblical authors were writing from different perspectives and had different takes on Jesus.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpq4bdisHRU

The Surprising Reason Luke Removed Atonement from His Gospel

Luke doesn’t see Jesus’s death as a sacrifice so God will forgive humans for their sins, but rather a key example of how sinful humans are–they killed God’s prophet! If you want to be forgiven, you have to turn back to God, but don’t need a sacrifice, according to Luke.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdtRG4QTLNs