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Ask NT Wright Anything

#137 Atheist asks: Was Jesus’ death just a ’bad weekend at human camp’?

Ask NT Wright Anything

Premier Unbelievable

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, History

4.82.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Tom Wright talks about his book The Day The Revolution Began and answers listener Qs on Penal Substitution, the Old Testament sacrificial system, Christ’s ‘descent to the dead’, and an atheist’s claim that Christ’s death was ‘just a bad weekend at human camp’. First broadcast in 2018. • Subscribe to the Ask NT Wright Anything podcast: https://pod.link/1441656192 • More shows, free eBook, newsletter, and sign up to ask Tom your questions: https://premierunbelievable.com • For live events: http://www.unbelievable.live • For online learning: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/training-and-events • Support us in the USA: http://www.premierinsight.org/unbelievableshow • Support us in the rest of the world: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/donate

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome back to the show, it's Justin Briley here, director of Premier Unbelievably,

0:21.4

with the show brought to you in partnership with SBCK and NTWRIT Online. Tom Wright is

0:27.2

a senior research fellow at Wickliffe Hall at the University of Oxford and a noted author,

0:32.5

Bible scholar and much more besides. Now just at the moment we're bringing you some

0:36.0

editions of the show from the archive when we first launched in 2018. This week Tom Wright

0:41.8

talks about his book The Day the Revolution began and answers listener questions on

0:46.4

penal substitution, the Old Testament sacrificial system, Christ's descent to the dead, and

0:52.4

an atheist claim that Christ death was just a bad weekend at human camp. By the way,

0:57.9

quick shout out to listener Paul Mackin and his whole Bible study group, Paul wrote to

1:01.9

me saying, I've become a big fan of the podcast discussions with Tom Wright. My Bible study

1:06.6

group often listens and uses the discussions as a foundation for our time together. Great

1:11.0

work. Thank you very much Paul. Please do rate and review us on your podcast provider.

1:15.8

It helps others to discover the show and do register over at our website to get the

1:19.6

link to ask a question yourself. Plus full access to all our resources and updates, forthcoming

1:25.4

events, you'll get a free ebook too by registering at premierunbelievable.com.

1:30.5

Well, let's go to me with you again, Tom. For the second of these several episodes that

1:42.2

we're doing together in which people have sent in all kinds of interesting questions

1:46.7

so many to choose from, but we do read them all and we try to include as many as we can

1:50.8

in each episode. Today, I thought we'd try and focus on a subject of a recent book of

1:55.5

yours, the interhonement. You wrote this book the day the revolution began. Let's go to

2:02.6

a question, though, first of all, from Galen in Cambridgeshire who asks, my question is

2:07.6

about your views on penal substitution and salvation. When you've raised criticism

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