Dr Brooks Really appreciate your lectures. Glad I found these before I die? Could you please upload the lecture about Jesus you mentioned above that we talked about last week. Please do as I cannot find in your playlist? I am really looking forward for it. Thank you
Professor Brooks, I am originally albanian, born during communism regime, on 1981. For the most of my life I have been a foreigner where ever I have lived. I Went to high school in Greece for few years, where theology was a Standard educational curriculum. Maybe, because I was born in atheist regime, I always looked at the study of religion as a fairy tail story. Why is it ok keep manipulating the mass about man made philosophies, all schools should teach students that religions are man made.
There is an endless amount of scholarship on this, going back centuries. Is there a particular topic within the field you are interested in? (And sorry it took so long to respond...I am trying to keep up with my channel more diligently now).
@@georgebrooks7775 While any recommendations about the covered topics would be appreciate, probably most specifically about the early compilation of the Bible.
@@jordanmoore5602 I am guessing it is the New Testament compilation you are interested in. The battles over what would end up in the New Testament, and all the early Christian writings that did not make it, have been topics of interest for many scholars. I would recommend you start with "Lost Christianities" by Bart Ehrman, and from there you can use his notes and bibliography to track down other specific topics you want to research. Cheers!
During his lifetime, Jesus spoke mostly to Jews about Jewish things, but certainly showed evidence of being enlightened beyond the confines of his historical time and place. The Christ of faith...well, that's a personal decision each person makes for themselves.
The 'common era' designation (CE) is just a religious-neutral way of stating the year as most of the world currently understands it. If you were born in 1986 AD, it is the same as being born in 1986 CE...it just that "Anno Domini" (the year of our Lord) doesn't resonate with Buddhists or Muslims or Hindus who use the same system of dating because we are a global society (and the Western Christian world dominated it long enough to impose that system globally...it is too late to go back and change everything to something else even if everyone could agree on an event to start counting the years). And anyway, it's just a convention and not quite accurate--Jesus was likely born around 4 BCE (or B.C. under the traditional terminology).
it signifies the end of days, fulfilling a long series of prophesies that have already come to pass and you would be amazed at just how ready Israel is to build their temple again. they literally have cloned the species of extinct cattle, "resurrecting" it if you will so they can perform their ritual sacrifices again once their temple is rebuilt, the money is ready, even some of the materials are collected. They are just waiting for a politically neutral way to rebuild, or waiting for a natural disaster to remove that ugly mosque off the Holy of Holy's...
you misquoted the phrase that Jesus said that some of you will be here at the end of days. The actual quote ended with "you will see the son of man coming in his kingdom" which some did on the Mountain a few verses later when several of the disciples visit him while praying atop the mountain seeing him in his glory with Elijah and Moses (the Transfiguration). Also John on the island of Patmos saw the Revelations .
I don't think it has anything to do with the times they lived in--it was a pretty prosperous period for the Roman Empire, although pretty miserable if you chose to resist Roman rule. But from what I've seen in history, there are always some people who, for whatever psychological reason, need to believe they live in the end times. I saw a video once of a young Billy Graham giving a sermon in which he told the crowd confidently that "two more years, and that's it...the end will be here" (something to that effect)--that was in 1948, several years after WWII ended with the U.S. victorious and our economy booming. Some people just need to believe everything will end soon.
