The back story on everybody mentioned in the so-called Hall of Faith, there is pretty mixed. It's obvious that it's faith in Christ, not their faithfulness toward him because it's also mixed. This isn't a mean God who gets up wrong side of the bed one day and he just can't take it anymore. That's not what we're talking about here at all. Israel messes up who tells a story that makes them look bad. Their whole founding story being God was so good to us. He gave us a land flowing with milk and honey which is his land. And we violated it. We became adulterers on our wedding night. Who tells that story as
All Bible stories are really just one story repeated over and over again, describing the intersection between our sinful condition and God’s relentless faithfulness. So it should come as no surprise when even the heroes of the story seem to be the most flawed. In this episode of White Horse Inn, hosts Michael Horton, Justin Holcomb, Bob Hiller, and Walter Strickland consider the shocking narrative of Samson, explaining how all stories, like Samsons’, lead us back to the glory of God.