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Bultman repeatedly argued that sinfulness belongs to the lapsedness of the past and redemption is an openness to the future.
[Bultman presumes that the future is the history of salvation, that is, of increasing delineation of thinkdivine.
This makes sense in the fact that, when a thinkgroup fails and lawessential runs its course, the emotional and cognitive reactions inform subsequent sacred prohibitions. The failure and re-establishment of order is enshrined in sacred rituals.
No one wants that to happen again.]
If Christ and the prophets most fully reveal [thinkdivine], then the “history of salvation” is the unfolding of “what Biblical revelation means”.
On the other hand, one can also argue that the words of prophets and of Jesus the Christ were only taken seriously after everything they predicted came true. After the first, and then the second, respectively, temple was destroyed, how could anyone deny the truth?
Perhaps, there is a simultaneous looking forward as well as back in the gift of thinkdivine.]