Wild Stories from the Bible: What the Church Never Talks About - Episode 80
About this episode
The episode explores the wild and uncomfortable stories from the Bible that are often overlooked in church discussions.
What happens when you stop treating the Bible like a sanitized children’s book and actually read the wild parts? In this episode of Tales of Abundance, Randy Lorensen, Dr. John Oberg, Anthony Marino, and returning guest Kristian Jalloway dig into the stories from the Bible that almost never get discussed in church. From chopped-up bodies and civil war to necromancy, kings with hundreds of wives, bears mauling children, and David sending a man to die so he could take his wife, this conversation explores the uncomfortable, bizarre, and deeply human material that many believers never wrestle with directly. The bigger question is not just why these stories are in the Bible, but what we are supposed to do with them. The group explores whether the Bible has a marketing problem or whether the church does, how the “Sunday school version” of Christianity leaves out much of the tension and strangeness of the actual text, and why certainty can sometimes be the enemy of spiritual growth. They also get into the Old Covenant vs the New Covenant, whether Christianity changed the moral framework around violence, how people cherry-pick scripture to justify what they already want to believe, and…
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