There's a tremendous amount of confusion about Islam in the United States, particularly among Christians,

who often tend to think that they need to unite with people of faith of all traditions against secularism.

Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch talking about his presentation at the 26 issues, et cetera, making the case conference.

And while there's some truth to that at the same time, Christians should know what Muslims think of them and what Islam teaches about Christianity. I'll be illuminating all that. It's quite shocking, as well as discussing the political aspects of Islam that every American needs to know about.

You can meet and hear Robert Spencer making the case against Islam

at this year's Making the Case Conference Friday, June 12th and Saturday, June 13th at Concordia

University Chicago. Find out more and register at issue ZTC.org or by calling 618-223-8385, making the case June 12th and 13th in River

Forest, Illinois.

You open the Bible and you expect every one of the books to be essentially about God,

God working in this world toward that promise of salvation that was made to our first parents

and fulfilled in Jesus Christ.

There are a couple places in the Old Testament where God is not even explicitly mentioned.

What are we to make of that?

Welcome back to Issues, etc. I'm Todd Wilkin, joining us for part six of our series on difficult Old Testament passages.

Dr. Andrew Steinman, Professor Emeritus of Theology in Hebrew at Concordia University, Chicago,

co-author of the Issues,

Et cetera, Book of the Month for May, wrestling with God, understanding difficult Old Testament passages.

Dr. Steinman, welcome back.

Good to be back with you, Todd.

Some might be surprised to learn that two books of the Old Testament do not explicitly mention God, Song of Songs and Esther.

Why is it important to understand the function of these two books to explain this?

Yeah, you have to understand kind of the strategy used by the author in each book to bring you to

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