HUM 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: New Covenant, Chosen People, Second Coming
Gaining a past: the preexistence of Jesus
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Figura: First Adam/Second Adam
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Figura: Old Covenant/ New Covenant
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Corinthians
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Goes to a community, gets some converts, and keeps in touch with these converts
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Paul is the earliest, written before all the gospels
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Gaining a past: the preexistence of Jesus
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Jesus seen as an immortal being
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Humans live linearly
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Convinced that Jesus represents a whole new stage of history
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Jesus is like a hinge, there is a time before and after Jesus.
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How does the emerging Christian group think of Jesus as related to time?
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Precise beginning point and end point when we reach the apocalypse
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Apex point in this narrative is Jesus
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History is a very contained narrative.
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Coming back and the world ending is the last part of his being a Messiah
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New phase of history must be headed towards an end, accompanied by the return of Jesus
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Community does not want to polytheistic so Jesus is not another God, but the same
God.
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Community convinced that Jesus is not just a man, but also God.
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Jesus is not just immortal, but eternal
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Claims the history of all the Old Testament as Christian past too
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But Christianity is the new phase of the Chosen people and God
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If he's divine, then he must have always existed
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Two things happen as Christianity develops
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Jesus as a man was not his first place of existence
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John presents Jesus as God, as there at the beginning
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Literally, "taking on flesh." The doctrine that Jesus is God, but took on flesh to live and die as
a human being
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Incarnation
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A pact between God and a religious group, specifically Jews or Christians
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Covenant
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Jesus comes back to Earth again
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Second coming
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All the dead come back to life
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General Resurrection
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Jesus judges everyone and assigns them to Heaven or Hell
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Final Judgement
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Literally, the end. In Christian prophecy this includes
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Eschaton
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A type of symbol that links together things with similar characteristics across time
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Example
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Abel killing his brother is a figura for Jesus' story of being rejected by his brethren, the Jews.
Figura
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(12) 5a: Paul's Christianity: the past and the future
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(12) 5a: paul"s christianity: the past and the future. Paul is the earliest, written before all the gospels. Goes to a community, gets some converts, and keeps in touch with these converts. Convinced that jesus represents a whole new stage of history. Jesus is like a hinge, there is a time before and after jesus. Precise beginning point and end point when we reach the apocalypse. New phase of history must be headed towards an end, accompanied by the return of jesus. Coming back and the world ending is the last part of his being a messiah. Community convinced that jesus is not just a man, but also god. Community does not want to polytheistic so jesus is not another god, but the same. If he"s divine, then he must have always existed. Claims the history of all the old testament as christian past too. But christianity is the new phase of the chosen people and god.
