Hey everybody, I'm Tim Mackie, and this is my podcast, exploring my strange Bible. I am a card-carrying

Bible history and language nerd who thinks that Jesus of Nazareth is utterly amazing and worth following with everything that you

have. On this podcast, I'm putting together the last 20 years worth of lectures and sermons where I've

been exploring the strange and wonderful story of the Bible and how it invites us into the mission

of Jesus and the journey of faith.

And I hope this can all be helpful for you too.

I also help start this thing called the Bible Project.

We make animated videos and podcasts and classes about all kinds of topics in Bible and theology.

You can find all those resources at Bibleproject.com.

With all that said, let's dive into the episode for this

week.

The title for this evening was Tyler's idea, a god of love and a world of suffering. And,

you know, a person could look at that title and walk away thinking,

okay, this is going to be like an evening where there's going to be a talk,

and the talk is going to be about these huge themes of God's love and God's justice

and the problem of evil and human suffering.

And the book of Job is going to answer all those questions for us.

And, you know, as kind a way as I can, I'll just say,

well, kind of.

Kind of.

And even it's funny to watch, you know, that video, which was,, which was researched and written by my past self,

because the nature of Scripture is it's a kind of literature that doesn't give up all of its secrets on the first reading,

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