God, Genocide and Biblical Interpretation (with Charlie Trimm)
Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith & Culture
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The Old Testament and Christianity in the Church
The church has struggled with the old testament in a variety of ways, he says. The new testament text that helps him the most is john six where jesus talks about eating his flesh and drinking his blood,. And peter's responses, you have the words of life. He also argues that sometimes biblical texts, you could bring to god and say, god, i don't like this text. But there's still some sense of mystery, not quite as going on.
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