Did Jesus know when the world would end?

The Bible is not a univocal book. I don’t believe that there is anything wrong or blasphemous admitting this.

From my prior years of biblical studies, I think the guy was being honest and believed he was being faithful to the text. A mark of a good teacher in Christian circles is one who can unify all the texts together to make sense, because they don't make sense on their own. Scholarship is honest about this problem and considers origin, style, etymology, and linguistic contexts. This is a better way of reading the text, no doubt about that. However, the Christian is amassing a comprehensive awareness of texts and that's usually considered the gold standard in their culture. It's unfortunate and I was duped into thinking this way for a very long time. Most Christians actually don't read their Bible much or if they do, it's a very juvenile approach that never really goes beyond "God is good and in control."

Nothing says "I'm making a serious, thoroughly researched argument" like a guy wearing a backwards ball cap talking to himself, in a voice that sounds as if he just finished huffing helium. 😂😅🤣

Great explanations Dan! Thanks for the great work you do.

What apologists don't seem to realize is if they can jump through all these linguistic hoops to bend and twist the text any way they want to, the text can also be bent to achieve the opposite results. Actually, scratch that. I'm sure plenty of them realize this, but just don't care. All they need is for their audience not to realize it.

This is one of many reasons I can't believe the scriptures were inspired by an infinitely wise God. Surely He would have realized that the texts would be confusing to even educated, sincere Christians. Why wouldn't he inspire the texts to be absolutely clear for everyone?

Thanks for helping those of us who do not know the languages the Bible was written

"univocality"! Everyone do a shot.

FYI - the timing of your subtitles gets wonky a bit later in the video - around 4:45 Nevertheless, excellent content sir.

Dan doesn't care about your figs! Get the figa out of here!😂 Your channel has been wonderful for me to understand more about how to interpret the Bible and understand how and why people deploy such rhetoric and renegotiations to dress the Bible up however the hell they want to. It's also wonderful to deploy you're shorter videos about certain passages when I see people online using passage to justify bigotry, hate, and ignorance . Cheers Dan!

Isn't this apologetic enterprise of requiring the other texts of the canon to do the justification work evidence that they just made it up? I am not trying to offend anyone, but I find it very interesting that the way apologists can blatantly disregard and then coopt facts to suit their preconceived notions seems to be exactly how fascists treat the truth. Whenever it is convenient facts are truth, but whenever it isn't, facts need to be rendered some new way, which so happens to perfectly coincide with their original notion.

Some strange skip and cut at 4:46, and the captions become misaligned there too. Maybe an editing error?

Jesus didn't even know when his birthday was.

Unlikely he didn't even know when it began 😃

Can you do on Matthew 24:34

As an outsider, Jesus cursing the fig tree seemed to be bad form. I feel bad for the fig tree and fail to see the point of the narrative. I've never gotten an adequate explanation for this, and Jesus seems like a git in the incident.

Thank you for covering these topics. I only wish that I could have grown up with this real knowledge, instead of all of the attempts at persuasive arguments to make us believe.

Good content ! Bad subtitles. 😈

I don't think the fig tree is a good argument for Jesus lacking knowledge, but it is amusing to think about a guy mad at a plant for operating in exactly the way he programed the plant to work. (Yes, I know this is taking a Johannine Christology and applying it to an earlier gospel.)

The Jesus of the Gospels knowing anything at all means his literary creators knew it as well - first.