Doubts Aloud Podcast

Episode 10 – Show Notes It would be good to have listened to the last episode where we interview Chris Date on doctrines of hell. Here we put it into context using the question: which hypothesis better fits the observations of doctrinal development in the BibleA. this is normal development of ideas in human cultureB. a divine agent is choosing to reveal doctrines bit by bit, like learning maths at school This initially arose as we looked at the latest chapter in our 50 Arguments for Faith book, chap 30 “The Son of God”. The chapter correctly identifies Son of God as the Old Testament title for the anointed king of Israel and that initially Jesus was Son of God only in being messiah – ‘anointed one’ – and things developed from there, ending with Jesus viewed as God - a member of the Trinity. Frances mentioned a great resource:http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com This doctrinal development theme then spread to the question of hell and afterlife and the devil, which we covered in Andrew’s ‘Is tha