Cultural Context Of The New Testament

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For someone to read the New Testament today without understanding the cultural context would be challenging. Reading the parables and tales from the New Testament, some may sound like myths. Wright mentions how the idea of God in this time would not refer to what we would think as our heavenly father but a “supreme or ultimate reality” which is why many people in his time get confused with him. The Jewish people had been waiting for a King and the promise land that was declared to them. Jesus came announcing the kingdom of God and his proclamations, he went around telling the people what the world would look like if God was king. The Jews expected a strong powerful leader and a Kingdom; when in reality the kingdom of God was coming in another