Episode 1: Bring Me to Life

This is the inaugural episode of the Theopologetics Podcast. The topic is the general resurrection of all the dead, which I use to introduce myself and what this podcast is all about. Related is a seeming ignorance of the doctrine in American Evangelicalism, which instead focuses on “heaven” as a place where our spirits go when we die, as well as a refutation of hyperpreterism’s claim that the resurrection is non-physical and happened in the first century.

• Evanescence, Bring Me to Life, from the Fallen album, 2003
• Daft Punk, Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger, from the Discovery album, 2001

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• The Preterist Podcast, with Dee Dee Warren.
  • Check out the episode I guest-hosted, “Kicking Some Left Behind Pt. 5–Jesus, the Not-So Master Communicator.”
  • I am also a guest author Dee Dee’s The Preterist Blog, and she has a ton of eschatological study material available at The Preterist Site.

• Eschatology: a part of theology and philosophy concerned with what are believed to be the final events in history
• Theology:study of divine things or religious truth, often referring generally to one’s set of beliefs, doctrines and teachings
• Apologetics: the branch of theology concerned with the defense and rational justification of Christianity
• Preterism: the orthodox view that most of the biblical prophecies concerning the so-called “end times” were fulfilled in our past
• Hyperpreterism: the heretical view that all biblical prophecies were fulfilled in our past including the Second Coming and resurrection
• Orthodox: in agreement with the Church through history concerning those things which are essential to the Christian faith
• Heresy: the denial of essentials of the faith on which the Church has united through history; a view which does so is called “heretical” or “unorthodox”
• Creed: an authoritative, formulated statement of the chief articles of Christian belief

• Apostle’s Creed
• “Rule of Faith” cited by Irenaeus
• Athanasian Creed

• Polycarp: Epistle to the Philippians
• Church of Smyrna: Martyrdom of Polycarp
• Tertullian: On the Resurrection of the Flesh
• Athenagoras: On the Resurrection of the Dead
• Augustine: Exposition on Psalm 63, Exposition on Psalm 30, quoted in General Resurrection (Catholic Encyclopedia)

• On the importance of a correct view of the resurrection
  • 2 Timothy 2:16-18
• On “heaven” (the “intermediate state” where our spirits go when we die)
  • 2 Corinthians 5:6-8
  • Philippians 1:22-23
  • 2 Timothy 4:6
  • 2 Peter 1:14
  • Luke 16:19-31
  • Luke 23:42-43
  • Revelation 6:9-11
• On death as “sleep”
  • Daniel 12:2
  • Isaiah 26:19
  • Job 14:12
  • 1 Corinthians 15:51
  • John 11:11-14
  • 1 Thessalonians 4:14
• On the resurrection of the dead
  • Jesus taught it
    • Matthew 22:23-32
    • Luke 14:12-14
    • John 5:28-29
    • John 6:39-40,44,54
  • Jesus’ listeners expected it
    • John 11:21-24
  • Pharisees expected it
    • Acts 23:6-8
    • Acts 24:14-15
    • Acts 26:4-8
  • Apostles taught it
    • 1 Corinthians 15
    • Philippians 3:8-11,20-21
    • 2 Corinthians 4:13-14,5:1-4
    • 1 Thessalonians 4:13-17
    • 2 Peter 3:13
    • Romans 8:22-23
  • John’s vision of the future depicts it
    • Revelation 20:4-6,11-15
  • Old Testament hints at it
    • Job 19:26
    • Daniel 12:2-3,13
    • Isaiah 26:19
    • 1 Samuel 2:6