are nothing because he predicts the future specifically and they cannot. Thus, the New Testament claim that we have eternal life because Jesus Christ walked out of the tomb on the first day of a certain week is not an innovation; it is simply continuing on in the trajectory that was laid out from Genesis to Chronicles (in the Hebrew order of the books). If none of these events actually took place, we are left with two insuperable problems: Where did the theology come from, and where did the Israelites