Sentences with phrase «apocalyptic prophet»

An "apocalyptic prophet" refers to someone who predicts or foretells an imminent catastrophic event or end of the world. They often offer warnings or provide instructions on how to survive. Full definition
An irrelevant, ranting, apocalyptic prophet among many in the region at the time.
It has everything to do with whether, as Leonard Klein puts it, «The risen, cosmic Christ is the male, Jewish, wine — drinking, celibate, crucified apocalyptic prophet Jesus of Nazareth, who taught as of first importance and as liberating news to call God «Our Father,» and who also in remarkable ways called women into a new community.»
Denise, I think the consensus is here — if consensus is allowed in terms of being on their own journeys, even NP is leery of all beliefs — anyways, the consensus arrived at by Contextual epistemology, not Foundational, as it can not be seen as a given, is that Jesus did not even exist, so hence he can not even be a failed apocalyptic prophet.
Jesus was an apocalyptic prophet that believed God's reign was about to break in soon (not 2000 yrs later) and so a lot of his statements have a very dire and urgent as well as end - of - the - world tone.
My deconstruction occurred when I realized that Jesus» end of the world predictions are all failed prophecies and that Jesus, if he existed, was nothing more than an apocalyptic prophet.
Contextualizing Jesus within Judaism, Sanders argues that he was an apocalyptic prophet proclaiming the imminent arrival of the kingdom of God and the restoration of Israel.
They were wrong, as has every apocalyptic prophet since then to and including Koresh, Camping, the idiot Christian Evangelicals and the 21 December 2012 nuts.
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