#137 Atheist asks: Was Jesus’ death just a ’bad weekend at human camp’?
Ask NT Wright Anything — Premier#137 Atheist asks: Was Jesus’ death just a ’bad weekend at human camp’?
September 29, 2022
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Tom Wright talks about his book The Day The Revolution Began and answers listener Qs on Penal Substitution, the Old Testament sacrificial system, Christ’s ‘descent to the dead’, and an atheist’s claim that Christ’s death was ‘just a bad weekend at human camp’. First broadcast in 2018.
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