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Apocalyptic Literature = Source Criticism
Chapter 7 Special Literary Forms, Virkler's Hermeneutics pg 176
Unbelievers Defend it:
- Secular Apocalyptic Literature has Three Main Factors
- The emergence of a 'Righteous Remnant”, a minority group with no political power who view themselves as remaining faithful to God while surrounded by unfaithful
- Second is the problem of evil where God rewards the just and destroys the evil
- Third the cessation of prophecy
- Ergo the category 'Apocalyptic Literature' is devised to establish that the Book of Daniel and Revelation of Jesus are just like secular apocalyptic genre.
- Virkler does not make this clarification nor distinguish Scripture from such critical tripe.
- He says “Biblical Apocalyptic has elements in common with noncanonical apocalyptic and this overlap of characteristics affects the issue of inspiration.