The Son of Man will come before some of those standing here taste death No, this was not going to be a final judgment. Yes, Jesus expected people to see the coming of the Son of Man within the lifetime of some of his disciples. The first is the teaching in the region of Caesarea Philippi about the cost of following him, the second is the apocalyptic discourse in Jerusalem.
“In the inerrantist universe, this is surely a paradox of cosmic proportions.”Īfter some introductory remarks about the relation of Jesus to Jewish apocalyptic thought, Stark looks closely at two passages in which he thinks that Jesus predicts the end of the world-the wholesale overhaul of the created order if not quite the end of the time-space continuum-within the lifetime of his disciples. He comes to the “paradoxical conclusion” that if the Gospels are right, then Jesus was wrong. In chapter 8, which is the only chapter I’ve read so far, he argues that Jesus proclaimed that “the world as we know it” would end within a generation. Thom Stark’s book The Human Faces of God: What Scripture Reveals When it Gets God Wrong is an attack on the doctrine of inerrancy-or perhaps better, an attempt to reframe the problem of biblical errancy.
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