And so it's just kind of an inner experience that might be manifested in different ways,

but there's no external form to it.

So you have figures like Schleiermacher, you have Julius Bellhausen, but it's really

Bellhausen who's the pioneer of critiquing the texts.

And Bellhausen says the problem isn't really the Bible as a whole. It's actually

the Old Testament. And what we've got to do is get rid of all these Judaic ideas of ceremonies

and calendars and going to some actual building and having some sort of baptism or whatever. All

that needs to be wiped away.

And he thought the best way to do that would be to cut up the Old Testament and figure out that, oh, actually, none of this is really from a deity.

It's actually a combination of different traditions.

And you have what's called the school that has this idea of the documentary hypothesis.

And this is where you get the idea of J-E-P-D, the Yahwehs tradition, the Elois tradition,

the priestly tradition, and the Deuteronomist tradition.

And so anytime you do any textual studies, you'll come across all of this.

And the idea is that, oh, well, so what is it?

All right. So if it's not from God, what is it?

Well, it looks like there's all these different traditions, JEPD, right?

There's the Yahwehs tradition, and these were the guys who at some point in the Old Testament were writing Genesis, whatever, they were using the term Yahweh.

Then there's this other group of people, they were the Elohist, and they were using the term Elohim.

And then there was the priestly cast, and they were using these priestly ideas ideas and they interjected the Levites and the temple and the ceremony.

And so it's basically just a big hodgepodge of garbage according to Bellhausen.

And so what he thought needed to be happened was purge all that Old Testament junk in his mind.

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