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So far, this book has fulfilled its ambitious promises within its introduction.

I’m not that far into this book and it already presents a sufficient case for the traditional Shakespeare figure to be farce. This book is great so far!

(10) not “providing biblical examples or anything contextual” to “support his argument”, and not understanding “concepts” to “mean what they normally mean to the ancient religious audience” (p.90)
(11) harboring “gnostic tendencies” (p.99)
(12) being “linguistically naive” (p.110)

(8) “manufacturing context” from the Olivet Discourse, which “is nothing more than eisegesis”, not “responsible exegesis of the text” (p.90)
(9) not using “linguistically sound methods” of interpretation of texts (p.90)

(3) promoting “liberalism and apostasy” according to his “superficial mindset” (p.82)
(4) promoting “some sort of docetic, mechanical dictation view of inspiration” (p.82)
(5) arguing contrary to what “exegesis would demand” (p.82)
(6) “simply misunderstanding predictive language” (p.86)
(7) “ignoring” what specific words and phrases of eschatological statements “actually mean” (p.88)

The clumsy apologetic & hubris of Bryan Hodge is remarkable.
I chuckled once I reached the chapter in which he labels Peter Leithart (of all theologians, and among other preterists) in bizarre ways. I will list twelve of those artificial labels below:

(1) “assuming a superficial view of inspiration” (p.81)
(2) lacking a “robust understanding of inerrancy” (p.82)

The Intro uses a lot of big boy rhetoric and preps the interested reader for tremendous insights to come.
Chapter one puts on a good show for a quick minute like a high school thug in the ring with Mike Tyson.
Round one was amusing.

I finished the intro & first 2 chapters.
In chapter 2 Morales points out something I’ve been saying for years (!!!)
The obscure vision of Abraham in Genesis 15 makes so much more sense if you plug in details from the LXX of Genesis 15.
Morales doesn’t explicitly say he’s drawing from the LXX, but if you’re familiar with the differences, there’s no way to miss it.
>>> Gen 15 foreshadows Israel’s Exodus <<<