Why the Spirit Mattered for the Earliest Christians

May 16, 2021 NaN
Why the Spirit Mattered for the Earliest Christians
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Why the Spirit Mattered for the Earliest Christians

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Show Notes

Dr. Ehrman emphasizes how the spirit-as-breath was important to Paul's view of the resurrection and how the period before the end of time came to been seen as the age of God's spirit. Read by John Paul Middlesworth

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