Part 1
The chapter starts out with Norm comparing Jesus’s questioning of the disciples between the gospels. Norm uses this to question how much Jesus really knew. Norm then wonders if the geographic location of the questioning is the reason for mentioning the gates of Hades. After Norm talks to Levy, a young Jewish boy, about the Jewish idea of the coming of the Messiah, he realizes that the elements (a Messiah, building a holy building upon a rock (Peter or the original foundation of the temple), and certitude) are the same as when Jesus makes Peter head of the church. He learns that Jews are not allowed on Temple Mount because they should not be stepping on holy ground. Could this be a political move? Norm realizes (after sending an email to professor Guilder) that both John and Jesus believed that the Kingdom of Heaven would come in their lifetimes. Norm then has a dream that explains all the views on Jesus’s prophecy on the end times. Could Jesus have prophesied a certain time (in the near to Him future) because the future was not really a possibility?
Part 2
Throughout this chapter Norm is questioning Jesus’s abilities to understand the future. Some of the questions Norm asks are;
Does this wordage (gates of Hades) mean that pagan religions will not prevail against Christianity?
Could Jesus clearing the temple also have been a political move, along with a religious one?
Did he believe that the apocalypse was happening now (in his time)?
Norm no longer sees the Jesus of his Sunday school days, but as a man who did not know everything. It is possible that Jesus was wrong about the coming of the Kingdom of Heaven because he was living in a world where the time frames for events were on a day to day basis.
The chapter starts out with Norm comparing Jesus’s questioning of the disciples between the gospels. Norm uses this to question how much Jesus really knew. Norm then wonders if the geographic location of the questioning is the reason for mentioning the gates of Hades. After Norm talks to Levy, a young Jewish boy, about the Jewish idea of the coming of the Messiah, he realizes that the elements (a Messiah, building a holy building upon a rock (Peter or the original foundation of the temple), and certitude) are the same as when Jesus makes Peter head of the church. He learns that Jews are not allowed on Temple Mount because they should not be stepping on holy ground. Could this be a political move? Norm realizes (after sending an email to professor Guilder) that both John and Jesus believed that the Kingdom of Heaven would come in their lifetimes. Norm then has a dream that explains all the views on Jesus’s prophecy on the end times. Could Jesus have prophesied a certain time (in the near to Him future) because the future was not really a possibility?
Part 2
Throughout this chapter Norm is questioning Jesus’s abilities to understand the future. Some of the questions Norm asks are;
Does this wordage (gates of Hades) mean that pagan religions will not prevail against Christianity?
Could Jesus clearing the temple also have been a political move, along with a religious one?
Did he believe that the apocalypse was happening now (in his time)?
Norm no longer sees the Jesus of his Sunday school days, but as a man who did not know everything. It is possible that Jesus was wrong about the coming of the Kingdom of Heaven because he was living in a world where the time frames for events were on a day to day basis.
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