The Book of Revelation Explained with Dr. Bart Ehrman

Bart Ehrman joins me to explain many of the mysteries in the Book of Revelation and to correct many of the misunderstandings we have about this book.

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[UncensoredChristian]

For everyone who is mad at IP for not challenging Ehrman let’s take a second to recognize that Ehrman is a scholar who has devoted his life to this work and IP has not devoted his life to this particular form of scholarship. What can we honestly expect IP to argue or ask that Ehrman wouldn’t have had an answer for? If our faith in Christ is justified then listening to opposing views shouldn’t shake us. Great video!

[luvtowrstle]

Personally, what most people don't realize is that the book of Revelation is like most of the Bible. It talks of the past, present AND future. It's intertwined within the conversation.

[MichaelStratton]

I like Bart Erhman but he stated that no one interpreted the Book of Revelation as speaking of future events until the French Revolution, where does he get this idea from? He’s an expert on Antiquity but doesn’t he know that the earliest commentaries on Revelation such as Hippolytus of Rome and his teacher Irenaeus of Lyons both believed that events of Revelation was suppose too happen after the fall of the Roman Empire. Later in the 5th century the Idealist interpretation was made popular by Augustine but there were still many who believed it too be speaking of future events, such as Andrew of Caesarea’s commentary on Revelation.

[טמוציןבורגיגין]

It's so amazing to see the mutual respect between these two people, despite their huge disagreements. I'm sure IP interviewed the most infamous critic of Christianity on purpose here - To show how we can learn even from an atheist professor, and build bridges even with critics :)

[RickDelmonico]

To understand Revelation, you must have a good understanding of the rest of the Bible.

[AveChristusRex]

The argument that Revelation was written in 'bad' Greek completely ignores the genre of Jewish Greek, i.e. that Greek which is (deliberately/necessarily) pervaded with Hebraistic usage of the language, due to tendencies to favor the Semitic rather than Hellensitic influences of the culture, or simple inability to make use of native Greek, depending instead on readable Greek intended for Jewish/Semitic audiences, or at least written by a Semite.

I can't believe 'Greek scholars' are still saying stuff like this.

[BBassistChrist]

Early in the video, Dr. Ehrman said the prophetic interpetation began in the 1800s, but then later he said the Protestant Reformation viewed the beast to be the Pope. But the Protestant Reformation happened a couple hundred years before the time stated for the beginning of the belief the book was prophetic. Did I miss something?

[vedinthorn]

Not gonna lie, I don't really respect his ability to interpret scripture seeing as he's a guy who says Mark has a low christology among other things. Getting the right reading from manuscripts is one thing, but getting the meaning from them is another.

[mrsapostate]

I am not a Christian, but I appreciate your content, IP! 👍I came across your content a few years ago when I was considering Christianity again.

[sethcaro]

Rev. 1:19: Write therefore the things:

-Which you have seen
-Which are
-Which shall take place after these (or about to take place).

I think it’s both the things that were clear for the reader at the time and things that would happen in the future.

[belialord]

14:53 Thank you for asking that question Michael, as a former JW it's very nice to see a scholar address this

[RicardoMartinez-muod]

Bart is a weasel when it comes to presenting evidence in its full context. Mike Winger has done an amazing job breaking many of Barts deceptions.

[Eraktab]

I think the comment sections "interesting" is a good word. He's a scholar for sure but a highly refuted one. Will at minimum be interesting to hear though

[fandude]

While I do believe the book of Revelation is about future events, I really enjoy this channel and support IP financially. Thanks Michael

[kingndanorth]

Already but not yet. It's hard to understand but it's the correct way to look at revelation in my opinion.

[Brickeh]

This will be interesting for sure. I think atheist Bible scholarship is a good way to try and get a proper understanding of the text without reading modern theology back into the original documents. No one's perfect but both sides coming together certainly are less biased than one side doing all the work

[eeeddddddiiieee]

“But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one. For “who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ.”
‭‭I Corinthians‬ ‭2:14-16‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

[Readingbetweentheframes]

This is actually why I listen to this channel. It’s so important to hear the other side. Erhman is not an enemy, rather someone who is asking the hard questions that every Christian should be able to answer.

[davidgustafson-tdru]

I am a born again, spirit filled Christian. I have no other God except Jesus. I have no hope except for Him. It breaks my heart that Bart identifies himself as an agnostic. Bart is a scholar. His early contributions to academia are significant. Hopefully his bad philosophy will encourage us to be better stewards of God's word instead of passively accepting whatever we hear.
Its ok to listen to Bart and be upset by his doctrine. Now is the time to accept the challenge and dig deep into scripture. Now is the time to make God's word more precious than your daily bread. Pray for Bart, right now he is Saul, pray that Jesus would touch his heart and create a Paul.

[noahfletcher]

Great video IP. Thanks for practicing the principle of charity and letting Bart Ehrman speak without trying to refute.