The Provider and the Patriarch
Holy Ghost Stories
Justin Gerhardt
4.9 • 553 Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
A shocking command tests Abraham's faith. Will he obey? Will Yahweh let him?
Text: Genesis 15, 22
Players:
- Yahweh
- Abraham
- Isaac
What's Spooky:
- Human Sacrifice
Credits:
Research, Writing, Narration, Sound Editing: Justin Gerhardt
Manuscript Editing: JL Gerhardt
Intro Music: "Winds of Change," Four Trees
Outro Music: "Fine-Toothed Chrome," Sam Barsh
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Why would he test us? |
| 0:07.0 | Why not narrow the options or make things easier or leave us be? |
| 0:15.0 | What kind of God would create fruit that wasn't to be eaten, or a boundary that wasn't to be crossed, or a path |
| 0:24.0 | that led to ruin. |
| 0:28.6 | This is a story about a God who tells us the testing of our faith results in the completion |
| 0:35.2 | of our souls. |
| 0:37.7 | It's a story about sacrifice and obedience |
| 0:40.7 | and that wonderful thing called faith. |
| 0:45.1 | And it's a story about how sometimes what's fair |
| 0:49.3 | is so much worse than what Yahweh has in mind. |
| 0:54.6 | I'm Justin Gerhard. |
| 0:57.1 | Welcome to Holy Ghost Stories. The |
| 1:13.6 | The The hands of Yahweh move like oil, smooth and emphatic, stacking bricks. |
| 1:44.4 | Are they bricks? |
| 1:47.3 | Or stones? |
| 1:49.3 | Or timber? |
| 1:52.7 | No, something else. |
| 1:55.7 | Cosmic, insoluble stuff. |
| 1:58.6 | Somehow coming together in those vehement fingers, raw material rising |
| 2:04.6 | and interlocking, becoming a new thing. |
| 2:08.6 | He's building a door. |
| 2:13.6 | It is as real as thunder, or the oak of mora, or the sun itself. |
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