On today's episode of the SSPX podcast, we'll continue our apologetic series by looking at some of the difficult texts of the Old Testament.

Last episode with Father Ruter, we saw that the Bible is credible. But today we'll look at two

specific points. First, how are we supposed to interpret some of the more controversial points

of the Old Testament? Was the God of the Old Testament a God of wrath and jealousy? Second, why

did God choose a specific group of people singled them out as his chosen people. Is that fair?

You can find notes to all of these episodes at SSPXpodcast.com slash apologetics, as well as all of

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Now, let's join Father Stephen Ruter for episode number nine of the Apologetic Series.

Father Ruter, it is great to have you back again this week for another look at

Scripture in the Old Testament.

How are you doing this week?

I'm well, Andrew, and it's great to be back.

Great, great to have you.

Last time we talked, we looked at the Old Testament.

We looked at Revelation. Well, Father McFarlane helped us look through Revelation, but in the Old Testament last episode, you were

talking about how the Old Testament can be seen as a true document. We went through all of the

different historical bases for credibility, essentially, of scripture.

This week, we're going to kind of stay in the realm of the Old Testament, but we're going to

start to look at the content of it, and we're calling this episode the Theology of History.

So what do you mean by the theology of history other than we're just going to be looking at the

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