Hey everybody, I'm Tim McEy 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 ten 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 be helpful for you too.

I also help start this thing called the Bible Project.

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

You can find those resources at thebibelproject.com.

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

Alright, well, this episode, it's going to be the second of a ten-part series called I Am Who I Am.

We're exploring the fundamental biblical portrait of God's character and identity through the storyline of the Bible.

And in these first teachings we're exploring the portrait of God in the Hebrew Scriptures of Yahweh, the God of Israel.

The second teaching is about the character and the role of God as a judge of human behavior, specifically as a judge of human's moral behavior.

This is not a topic that brings warm fuzzies to the most of our hearts.

It's something that makes us sweat a little bit and get anxious or nervous because we're afraid that God's going to do something that offends us as often happens in the Bible.

The role of God as judge is one of the most difficult things that I think modern Western people, religious or not, struggle with when they listen to Christians or Jewish people or Muslims talk about the character of God as a judge.

So what does that mean? What does it mean to say that God brings to bear his justice on our behavior and evaluates it according to justice? What does that mean?

And does that bad news or is it good news or perhaps is it both? So that's what we're going to explore is some of the fundamental biblical passages that talk about how God is a judge and what that means.

Specifically we're going to look at a passage in the book of Exodus chapter 34 that talks about how God holds people accountable, families hold generations accountable for their stupid selfish decisions.

I encourage you to open up your Bible. It'll be always helpful as we're going through these teachings but especially for this one because we're going to be looking at some words very closely.

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