Comments on: Prophecy and Ethics http://www.bullartistry.com.au/wp/2012/04/30/prophecy-and-ethics/ Theology you can eat and drink Fri, 10 Aug 2018 15:01:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 By: Mike Bull http://www.bullartistry.com.au/wp/2012/04/30/prophecy-and-ethics/comment-page-1/#comment-18518 Tue, 01 May 2012 12:35:52 +0000 http://www.bullartistry.com.au/wp/?p=9726#comment-18518 Robert – I don’t think he’s trying to prove that they don’t look similar on the surface. Bathrooms and justice both have scales. He’s peeled off the skin to describe the underlying character and purpose. So it’s not so much exploding the genre classification as exposing it as superficial.

Related to sci-fi, you could say that the Biblical prophecies were all written by the master, and the Jewish “spin-offs” were cheap look-alikes trying to jump on the bandwagon. Like the Book of Mormon being written in King James English!

]]> By: Robert Murphy http://www.bullartistry.com.au/wp/2012/04/30/prophecy-and-ethics/comment-page-1/#comment-18517 Tue, 01 May 2012 12:26:19 +0000 http://www.bullartistry.com.au/wp/?p=9726#comment-18517 Normally, I appreciate Chilton for his typological insight, but here he is just plain wrong. There IS a genre called apocalyptic literature, and while John’s Revelation may explode the parameters of the genre, it is nevertheless squarely in it. Mixing metaphor, kaleidoscopic jumble of pictures, numerology, chiasms, etc. are all hallmarks of the genre, which John has in common with sections of Joel, Isaiah, Daniel, Ezekiel and the apocryphal books of the “Apocalypse of … Abraham, Adam, Baruch, etc.” It IS an established genre and it is more helpful than not to place Revelation in it. Most kids today call it SciFi!!!

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