A Response To Academic Atheism

A Response to Academic Atheism

You totally misunderstood my position. When I stated that "The difference between a theist and an atheist is the degree to which God has revealed himself to them,” I was not referring to biblical revelation—I was referring to “personal” revelation. Knowledge of God doesn’t come from a philosophical inquiry or from reading the Bible, but from a deep existential experience (in the Heideggerian sense) where a “personal revelation” takes place! Perhaps you’re not familiar with my work. I’m convinced that the Bible is a collection of mythic prophecies, not a record of historical events. For example, I totally agree with you that the story of Noah is a myth. Even the story of Jesus is a myth in a certain sense. Jesus never existed—he is not an established figure in history, and the gospels simply borrow material from the Old Testament to prove that he is the messianic fulfillment of the Jews! So the gospels are mythical: theological. I’ll grant you that. However, the rest of the New Testament gives us a very different account of Jesus, one that is not historical but rather prophetic and apocalyptic:

“For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy” (Revelation 19:10), NOT history!

“God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways, in these LAST DAYS has spoken to us in His Son” (Hebrews 1:1-2, emphasis added).

“Once IN THE END OF THE WORLD hath he [Jesus] appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice [death] of himself” (Hebrews 9:26, emphasis added).

Conclusion: the Bible is a collection of “theologies” or mythic prophecies that point to the messianic age when Jesus Christ will appear once and for all “at the consummation of the ages” (Hebrews 9:26, New American Standard). And this truth is not known by reading the Bible but through a “personal” revelation. Hence I believe!

The Divine Word will give to the substance [will be incarnated], That which contains heaven and earth, occult gold in the mystic deed: Body, soul and spirit are all powerful, Everything is beneath his feet as at the seat of heaven.

Nostradamus, Century 3, Quatrain 2

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Men will go into caves of the rocks, and into holes of the ground before the terror of the LORD, and before the splendor of His majesty, when He arises [translated as 'αναστη' by the Septuagint, meaning 'resurrects'] to make the earth tremble.

Isaiah 2:19

The Greek New Testament substantiates that the death of Christ occurs "In the End of the World."

By Author Eli Kittim

According to the original Greek New Testament (Hebrews 9:26b), Christ will be manifested once and for all "in the end of the world" to die for the sins of the world. It reads:

νυνϊ δε απαξ επι ϲυντελεια των αιωνων ειϲ αθετηϲιν τηϲ αμαρτιαϲ δια τηϲ θυϲιαϲ αυτου πεφανερωται.

Translation (King James Version):

"Once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself" (Hebrews 9:26).

Biblical scholars translate the Greek phrase "ϲυντελεια των αιωνων" to mean "in the end of the world." A similar phrase, "ϲυντελειαϲ του αιωvos,” can be found in the Gospel of Matthew chapter 28 and verse 20:

διδαϲκοντεϲ αυτουϲ τηριν παντα οϲα ενετιλαμην ϋμιν και ϊδου εγω ειμι μεθ υμων παϲαϲ ταϲ ημεραϲ εωϲ τηϲ ϲυντελειαϲ του αιωvos.

Translation (American Standard Version):

"teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I commanded you: and lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world."

Therefore, it is unquestionable that the Greek phrase "ϲυντελειαϲ του αιωvos" (Matthew 28:20) means "in the end of the world." And if that's the case, and it is, then the reference to Jesus being manifested once "επι ϲυντελεια των αιωνων" to die for the sins of the world (Hebrews 9:26) would certainly mean that his death occurs "Once in the end of the world," and not 2,000 years ago as is currently assumed!

THERE SHALL COME THE ROOT OF JESSE, AND HE WHO ARISES ['anistamenos,' means resurrects] TO RULE OVER THE GENTILES, IN HIM SHALL THE GENTILES HOPE.

Rom. 15:12