Dr. Michael Peppard

I mean, imagine if you're walking out, you take a shower, you're wearing your robe and you come out on the street in Brooklyn, you know, to pick up your mail. And then a cop tries to grab you for some reason or like somebody, anybody tries to grab you. You get accosted by someone trying to mug you and you slip out of your robe and just run down the rigs.

I mean, imagine if you're walking out, you take a shower, you're wearing your robe and you come out on the street in Brooklyn, you know, to pick up your mail. And then a cop tries to grab you for some reason or like somebody, anybody tries to grab you. You get accosted by someone trying to mug you and you slip out of your robe and just run down the rigs.

That one is... Where am I going to put that one? What's in between spicy and minty?

That one is... Where am I going to put that one? What's in between spicy and minty?

I think, yeah, I'm closer to minty because there's such mixed evidence within the Gospels.

I think, yeah, I'm closer to minty because there's such mixed evidence within the Gospels.

By political, also by political, we got to define our terms here. We got to be a good student professor, students and professors here. By revolutionary, does one mean take up arms in violence? If by that, I would say no. I don't think we have evidence that Jesus was designing a kind of insurgency against Roman occupation in Jerusalem, a Roman occupation of the region.

By political, also by political, we got to define our terms here. We got to be a good student professor, students and professors here. By revolutionary, does one mean take up arms in violence? If by that, I would say no. I don't think we have evidence that Jesus was designing a kind of insurgency against Roman occupation in Jerusalem, a Roman occupation of the region.

If we mean by revolutionary something more like Gandhi, then I would say yes. You know what I mean? How do we use the term?

If we mean by revolutionary something more like Gandhi, then I would say yes. You know what I mean? How do we use the term?

Just going on a hunger strike. Or if we mean something like Oscar Romero in El Salvador.

Just going on a hunger strike. Or if we mean something like Oscar Romero in El Salvador.

the Bishop of El Salvador, who was martyred by the state. If we mean, I think he was a revolutionary in a sense, a political revolutionary in a sense, right? But not with a gun on his shoulder or not with a weapon in his hand.

the Bishop of El Salvador, who was martyred by the state. If we mean, I think he was a revolutionary in a sense, a political revolutionary in a sense, right? But not with a gun on his shoulder or not with a weapon in his hand.

I do not think it was his primary role, but I want to believe that great figures in history are capable of multiplicity of things, right? We know this in our own era. We have very impressive figures in history who... whatever, whatever it is. Like you can, uh, Beyonce can win a cow country Grammy. Like you got people who had Dr. Drake and sell sodas.

I do not think it was his primary role, but I want to believe that great figures in history are capable of multiplicity of things, right? We know this in our own era. We have very impressive figures in history who... whatever, whatever it is. Like you can, uh, Beyonce can win a cow country Grammy. Like you got people who had Dr. Drake and sell sodas.

Like you, the Beatles go from, I want to hold your hand to Sergeant peppers in 10 years. People do all kinds of diverse things in their lifetimes. And so I, I think that my view of a person of Jesus is that he is all these things. So, uh, He's a healer first, right? That's something people miss when they read the New Testament for some reason, because it's so clear.

Like you, the Beatles go from, I want to hold your hand to Sergeant peppers in 10 years. People do all kinds of diverse things in their lifetimes. And so I, I think that my view of a person of Jesus is that he is all these things. So, uh, He's a healer first, right? That's something people miss when they read the New Testament for some reason, because it's so clear.

People are seeking him out as a healer and no one's questioning that he can do it. This is amazing, right? His opponents don't even question it. They question why he can do it. where do you get the power from? But no one's saying like, you're faking.

People are seeking him out as a healer and no one's questioning that he can do it. This is amazing, right? His opponents don't even question it. They question why he can do it. where do you get the power from? But no one's saying like, you're faking.