This is John at Bible Project and today on the podcast we're going to continue a series

walking through the character of God.

There are two verses in Exodus 34, verses 6 and 7 where God proclaims about Himself

five attributes, five characteristics that are fundamental to who the God of the Bible

is.

First two we discussed in the last two episodes that God has compassionate, that is He cares

for us like a mother cares for a child and secondly that God is gracious.

That is that He sees in us in humanity something that's valuable and worth showing favor

to even though we often prove the opposite.

These first two characteristics are kind of nice and they give me warm fuzzies.

Many people in our culture have a default belief that if they believe in God they either

want to believe or just do believe that He's charitable and generous and good.

But He has pathos in that way.

Many people resonate with there's a being or an energy permeating that's compassionate

and gracious and what they what that's describing is a being with pathos who's moved.

The third attribute the one right at the center of the five is a bit different.

God proclaims about Himself that He is slow to anger and actually that isn't really an

action.

I think it's in the center because it's the only one that isn't positive as such or you

could say it's stating a secondary it's addressing something about God about how God responds.

The anger is not a basic attribute of God.

It's a responsive pattern of God's behavior in response to evil.

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