Welcome to the Bible Project Podcast. I'm John and we're in the middle of a series discussing

five attributes of God. Five characteristics that God assigns to himself in a conversation

with Moses. We've already looked at the first two attributes where God says that he's

compassionate and gracious. And last week we began on the third attribute where God

describes himself as being slow to anger. That yes, God gets angry at injustice and evil,

but he's slow to get angry. We're going to continue this conversation on God's anger.

And one story where you would imagine God being described as angry is the flood story.

You know the story where he's so fed up with humanity that he wipes everyone out?

So here's the thing is that the flood is it's really sobering. It's a sobering portrait

of God's justice. God has never said once to be angry in that story. What the introduction

says in chapter 6 is this, the Lord was sorry that he made humans on the land and he was

pained. He felt pain in his heart. You see in Genesis 1, God has shown as separating

chaotic waters from each other so that land can emerge. And here in the flood story, the

opposite happens. In the flood God allows the waters above and the waters below to collapse

back in on the land. God's judgment is to relax his ordering power and to give humans over to

where they came from and where they're going to which is back to the dust. And it's to remove

his ordering power from the cosmos and allow creation to collapse in on itself again. The way

that God judges is to hand people over to the outcome of their decisions. And so today we're

going to continue our conversation on the wrath of God. Thanks for joining us. Here we go.

We are continuing our conversation on attributes of God specifically. God is long of double-nastrole

or slow to anger to help us through this conversation is to Bible scholars Timmeki Haytim.

Hello and Karissa Quinn. How are you doing, Karissa? Hey, good. We left the last conversation.

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