What kind of God demands loyalty but punishes honesty? Maybe it’s time to talk about divine wrath, heresy, and what it means to challenge sacred texts with integrity. In this episode, we’ll take a fearless look at divine contradictions, ancient heresies, and why asking tough questions might be the most faithful thing you can do!
In the main episode this week, we looked at a weird little story from Genesis where Abraham stood up to God. He literally pushed back on God’s plan to wipe out two entire cities. Surprisingly, God didn’t smite Abraham on the spot. In fact, Abraham negotiated with God, basically haggled with him, over how many good people it would take to stop the destruction. It was like a reverse auction. Fifty? Forty-five? Do I hear thirty?
It was a bold move but it needed to be done, because what God was planning wasn’t loving, or patient, or even remotely proportional. It was wrath, plain and simple. So Abraham stood up and said, “Wait… is this really justice?”
If that same wrathful, fire-raining God is supposedly one-third of the loving, peaceful Jesus you meet in Sunday School… then what kind of God are they even talking about?
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