Misunderstood Passages about the Weird Stuff in the Bible

White Horse Inn

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🗓️ 21 January 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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From the Nephilim to the imprecatory psalms, there is a lot of weird stuff in the Bible. The problem is that for many people, these texts can quickly turn into rabbit holes of vain speculation. In the episode, Michael Horton, Walter Strickland, and Bob Hiller show how ordinary Christians can be inquisitive readers of Scripture—being receptive to their meaning and place in God’s revelation—while also refraining from making the strange and the niche central to our who we are.

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0:00.0	I still think that if Jesus says during this interim period you pray for those who
0:08.8	persecute you you this is the interim law for my people.
0:14.3	I really don't think that we should be praying in pre-catory Psalms,
0:18.3	even with a view towards the final judgment,
0:22.2	and we're not expected to delight in the death of the wicked
0:27.0	any more than God does so I think we have to be very careful and that also means
0:31.6	we can't say not just sing we definitely regardless of what you think
0:36.4	about singing the Psalms the imprecatory Psalms we should not be calling down
0:42.1	publicly calling down
0:44.3	or even privately calling down fire calling down God's judgment
0:48.8	delighting in
0:50.4	the destruction of Sodom and Gamora, delighting in the death of our neighbors who do not call
0:59.0	upon the name of the Lord. applying the riches of the Reformation to the modern church.
1:15.0	This is Whitehorse Sin, a weekly roundtable discussion about theology and
1:21.0	culture. At this table we confess what is known as the perspicuity of scripture.
1:36.3	That means that we believe that the Bible is clear on what it teaches.
1:40.0	That's right, perspicuity, leave it to the theologians to use an obscure word to define clarity.
1:47.6	But we believe that the Bible's message actually is clear that the leaders of God's creation
1:52.4	have led a rebellion against their
1:53.9	creator imposing sin, death, and destruction on that creation and thus earning
1:58.4	condemnation. But God being rich in mercy has chosen to rectify the situation by sending his son in the power of the
2:05.4	Holy Spirit to pay the penalty for our sinfulness by dying on the cross.
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