This is the Bamel Podcast with Marty Solomon. I'm his co-host, Brent Billings.

Today we examine the gospel narrative of Mark, noting his distinct audience and the intentional

methods he used to communicate the Yuan-Gelion to them.

Yuan-Gelion. I mean, do we need to go back and do just a little bit of review? Where have

we been in session three? Let's see. Start talking about Hellenism. What was Hellenism?

It is the gospel idea of everything will be provided for you. We'll give you all of the

things you need. There's a lot of you in your explanation there.

Yes. What is the overarching? And it comes from which worldview?

It comes from Greek, from the Greeks, right? And what was the driving like tenet? How did

they get to this point where it was all about you and you're? Well, previously the gods

had been at the center of everything and now man is at the center of everything.

Perfect. Would you imagine that we have some issues with a biblical worldview with this

new Greek understanding? It doesn't really mesh very well together.

Or at least with many people as they view it. We had to look at the different responses

that they had to this arrival of Hellenism on the scene. We spent a bunch of podcasts

at the beginning of this session talking about Herodians. Let's review the groups. Who

were the Herodians, Brent? The Herodians actually did find a way to make the Greek worldview

mesh with the biblical worldview. Yeah, this is great. The Herodians said I'll take

a little bit of theater. I'll take a little bit of luxury. I'll take a little bit of leisure.

Take a little bit of plumbing. Take a little bit of health care. And I'll have my synagogue

and my god worship. I guess maybe next to them we could put the sadducees. Who were they?

They were the priests. Basically the same idea, but they had this call to priesthood and

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