Welcome to Miss Quoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman.

The only show, where a six-time New York Times best-selling author and world-renowned Bible

scholar, uncovers the many fascinating, little-known facts about the New Testament, the historical

Jesus, and the rise of Christianity.

I'm your host, Megan Lewis. Let's begin.

Today on misquoting Jesus, we're going to be talking about whether the God seen in Revelation

is the same as the God in the rest of the New Testament.

I'm sure that many of you familiar with the claim that the God of the Old Testament is somehow

different to that of the New Testament, not necessarily a different God, but definitely a different portrayal.

And as you may have realized over the past couple of episodes, a case can be made for the God

of Revelation having more in common with that of the Old Testament than the rest of the New Testament.

How do all of these depictions of God work together, and are they as contradictory as they first appear? But Bart, before we solve one of the New Testament. How do all of these depictions of God work together, and are they as

contradictory as they first appear? But Bart, before we solve one of the great theological

problems of our age, how are you? I'm doing fine, thanks. You know, it's funny how the,

you know, the great problems of our age don't really relate to our daily lives as much.

Our actual age, yeah. One of the tricks, you know, teaching undergraduates is to get them to start thinking about

bigger issues.

You know, I think about this a lot when I'm going to because, you know, there's issues

in the world and in people's lives.

And so, yeah, I'm doing well because I'm teaching these undergraduates this semester and

it's really, it's been really fun because these are people who open to it. And so I've been really enjoying the semester. So how are things in your hand? Yeah, all good actually. Are you teaching that class? Weren't you going to be teaching a class? Not yet. That's going to be later in the year, I think May or June. They've got me slated to teach. But yes, teaching Sumerian, which will be lots of fun. I need to relearn Sumerian because it's been a while. Well, you know, my students don't think much about the big issues in the world until they're kind of introduced to them. But, you know, some of them do, obviously. But I bet none of them think about Sumerian. Probably not. And you know what? That's, I think, a reasonable stance to take for your life.

Okay.

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