"Death" - Dr. Dale Allison

2024 Pellett-Wearn Lecture Series: "The Bible and the Last Things"
What happens when we die? What should we think about heaven? How should we think about the second coming? Should we believe in hell? What can resurrection mean? Professor Allison will explore how the Bible addresses these perennial questions through lectures on Death, Resurrection, Heaven, Hell, and the Second Coming.
Dale C. Allison, Jr. is the Richard J. Dearborn Professor of New Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary. He earned his MA and PhD from Duke University. His academic research and publications include the historical Jesus, the Gospel of Matthew, Second Temple Judaism, and the history of the interpretation and application of biblical texts. His book, Constructing Jesus, was selected as “Best Book Relating to the New Testament” for 2009-2010 by the Biblical Archaeology Society. His most recent books are The Resurrection of Jesus: Apologetics, Polemic, History and Encountering Mystery: Religious Experience in a Secular Age. He served for several years as the main New Testament editor for de Gruyter’s International Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception and has been on the editorial boards of multiple academic journals. On a more popular level, he has written books on George Harrison, religious experience, and death and what might lie beyond.

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Everyone should read Dale Allison's book: "Encountering Mystery." Also, Bruce Greyson's book, "After", is a wonderful collection of professionally coroborrated NDE's in the medical field.

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Fantastic. When was this lecture given?

[@rogersacco4624]

...Heavens on Earth by Michael Shermer.All the things no one considers about why afterlives can't be what we think they are.."a googol of googoplex of resurrection complexities "

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Believers
Those without a standard reference to reality, would have us all follow their lead. As if travel is best done with one foot in their fantasyland.
1 Corinthians 9:20
And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law; 21 To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law.
Literate men have always known god as a tool of fiction. Believers continuously avoid the issue; believers commit the crime of indoctrinating children with a fantasyland vocabulary. These wolves in sheep's clothing are commanded to 'suffer the children to come.' Even Jesus Christ said faith was worthless: You can't move mountains by voice command. Faith is a farce, fantasyland of prophecy, & resurrection. Believers don't get respect outside a camp of fellow believers, can't handle any condemnation of cult views, non-believers are eliminated, declared evil, baptized into the cult fantasy. The inquisitions & witch-killing are ended by secular law & order. Jesus Christ becomes alarmed by the gathering crowd of those seeking signs. He performs them in every chapter. It is astounding, how the Christ fantasy ignores Jesus saying, "This is a wicked generation seeking signs, the only sign given is Jonah,"