Welcome to this week to the Bile Project podcast. Today on the show we are doing a mid-series

question and response episode. We're talking about the character of God in this series

and with me is Tim and Chris. Hi. Hey John. Hey there. Here we are. Here we are. So we

have some questions from people following along with the character of God series walking

through these attributes that God declares of himself in a famous story in Exodus 34. So

if you've been following along, awesome. If you haven't, you can start from the beginning

or just jump in now with these questions. Yeah. So let's get to it. Let us. The first question

is from Nancy and Michigan. Hi. I'm Nancy from Grand Rapids, Michigan. Thank you for this

excellent series. Here's my question. My son grew up in the church but has been questioning

his faith. At times he sees God as being contradictory and appears to be emotionally abusive at

times. In one of your podcasts, you mentioned that Jesus is the full orb portrait of God. If

people don't see this, they are either misunderstanding God or Jesus or both. What exactly

would you say people are misunderstanding about the God of the Old Testament and Jesus of

the New Testament? Thanks. Great question. Yeah. I feel like this is a question that a lot

of people have and a lot of people resonate with. Yep. Yeah. I have found this. I think

we've all have talked about this all three of us at some point that it's actually a more

regular experience that I found in pastoral ministry when people are coming to own their

faith or they're just exploring it to try and take it more seriously. And they just read

the actual Bible as opposed to rely on the versions of the stories that they were given

through teaching or something. There's a whole phase usually of the Bible creating all

these problems for people. Actually, John, you lived there for quite a long time. So this

is a very common issue. The portrait of God is complex and difficult to process. And

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