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Chris Hilken - Morality of God in the Old Testament - Part 1 | 452

Dad Tired

Jerrad Lopes

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

5 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Many christians  feel unequipped to handle the hard questions—especially when it comes to the Old Testament. Why does God seem so angry? Did He really command entire crowds  to be destroyed? In this episode, Chris Hilkin opens a new teaching series by offering simple, powerful tools for reading Scripture faithfully. He walks through how to understand difficult passages, avoid common interpretation mistakes, and confidently answering the kinds of questions people might ask about God’s character in the Bible.

What You’ll Learn:

  • Why we must use clear Scripture to interpret confusing passages
  • How to distinguish between biblical description and prescription
  • Why not every story in the Bible teaches a moral or doctrine
  • How context, authorship, and genre shape proper understanding
  • Common interpretation errors that lead to misunderstanding God’s character
  • Why Jesus must be the hero of every biblical narrative


đź“– Scripture References:

  1. Psalm 82 vs. Isaiah 44 & Deuteronomy 6 
  2. Exodus, Deuteronomy, Leviticus – laws about slavery, justice, and culture
  3. 1 Samuel 15, Job 1:21, Romans 13 
  4. John 3:16, Ephesians 2:8–9
  5. Deuteronomy 6:4–6 – The Shema
  6. Galatians 3, Philippians 2, Isaiah 61 


Resources & Links :

  • Podcast sponsor-Range Leather 
  • Use code DADTIRED at rangeleather.com/dadtired for 15% off custom hats
  • Email for Notes: [email protected] 


Future Topics in the Series
Ep 453- Chris Hilken- Morality of God in the Old Testament- Part 2| 453
Ep 455- Chris Hilken- Morality of God in the Old Testament- Part 3| 455

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0:50.7

And this is just, it's too good.

0:52.0

If you don't know who Richard Dawkins is, he's one of the

0:54.7

four horsemen of the atheist apocalypse, are just harshly critical of everything God, everything Bible.

1:02.5

Particularly, he takes aim time and time again, the God of the Old Testament. And this is perhaps

1:08.4

one of the, one of the most vitriolic quotations about God.

1:15.4

Here's what he writes in the book The God Delusion.

1:18.0

He writes this, the God of the Old Testament is, and he's British, so you've got to think

1:22.2

about this through a British accent.

1:23.6

The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction,

1:28.4

jealous and proud of it, a petty, unjust, unforgiving, control freak,

1:32.1

a vindictive, bloodthirsty, ethnic cleanser, a misogynistic, homophobic, racist,

1:39.2

infanticidal, genocidal, philicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacistics, capriciously malevolent bully.

1:49.1

I mean, you know, like if you're going to go after God, he might as will go all the way.

1:55.1

You know, and one of the things that's been a wrestle for me in my life growing up as a Christian,

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