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.

Well in this episode we're continuing this series called I Am Who I Am.

These were a number of teachings I did back when I was a pastor at Dorf Hope a number of years ago.

And this whole series was taking a long time to explore the biblical portrait of God in the Bible.

So we started with the depiction of Yahweh in the Hebrew Scriptures and then to see how

the gospel accounts in the New Testament portrayed Jesus as the physical embodiment of Yahweh,

the God of Israel.

And then in this last kind of leg of the series, this is actually going to be six episodes.

We wanted to pause and take a longer time to explore the portrait of the spirit throughout

the Old and New Testament.

Both in my own personal experience and I have found in the experience of many others

if somebody didn't grow up in a Christian tradition that really emphasized the presence and work

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