Rethinking the Bible with Jack Pelham

Rethinking the Bible with Jack Pelham


Episode 30: Vetting Your Expectations for the End Times and the Beginning Times, Too

April 16, 2021

DESCRIPTION: Jack talks about how it’s hard to know a prophecy has been fulfilled when you’re not sure about the details of what was supposed to happen. He also approaches the problems we run into when trying to understand Bible topics in neat, little packages when the fact of the matter is that we are given more information about such things than we can conveniently keep track of.

Writings Discussed In This Episode

Daniel Kahneman–“Furthermore, participants who saw one-sided evidence were more confident of their judgment than those who saw both sides!  This is just what you would expect if the confident that people experience is determined by the coherence of the story the manage to construct from available information.