To Know God

About this episode

This episode explores the concept of understanding God's character through various stand-ins in Scripture.

Several books on my bookshelves wrestle with the idea of “a hidden God.” My Amazon wish list contains a few as well. So here we will put the big question earlier than normal: Question How can we understand the character of God, who is both the single most important character in the Hebrew Bible and yet absent from the majority of it? As we read Scripture, we note that God often uses stand-ins for Himself. Why? Stand-Ins for God: Angels Humans Judges Kings Prophets Humans speak about God: God’s friends God’s foes Narrator Nature Animate Inanimate Absence Additional Questions How many of these stand-ins are created, sin-damaged, or sin-traumatized? The reliability of their witness for/about God is what ...

Topics covered

• character of God
• hidden God
• Scripture
• stand-ins for God
• witness reliability

Keywords

• God
• hidden God
• angels
• humans
• prophets
• witness
• Scripture

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Hebrew Bible

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