TMCP 132: Matthew Lynch on How We Handle Hard Passages in the Old Testament
How should Christians handle troubling passages like Noah's Flood, the Israelite conquest, and the treatment of women in the Old Testament? In this episode, Matthew Lynch seeks to answer a few of these questions.
Matthew J. Lynch is an associate professor of Old Testament at Regent College in Vancouver, Canada. He is the author of First Isaiah and the Disappearance of the Gods, Portraying Violence in the Hebrew Bible, and Monotheism and Institutions in the Book of Chronicles. He is the co-founder of the OnScript podcast, a podcast focused on providing engaging conversations on Bible and theology.
Episode Talking Points
- Matt Lynch, tuba player
- Matt's journey to Christ
- Understanding conversion
- Violence in the Old Testament
- The flood narrative
- Joshua and conquest
- Static rope/dynamic rope
- Core doctrines of Christianity
- The character creed of God in Exodus 34
- Thinking through the mysteries of God
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