• Episode 314: Whacking our Biblical moles

  • Jan 11 2025
  • Length: 34 mins
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Episode 314: Whacking our Biblical moles

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  • We return to the Bible this week, to the thorny topic of how we deal with difficult Bible verses, particularly verses about eternal punishment and divine vengeance. As our correspondent puts it, it's like Biblical whack-a-mole: you hammer one passage down, only to see new ones pop up. So we talk about the inadequacy of systematic theology, the need to recognise contradiction and mystery and how everybody, frankly, is whacking their moles. Most importantly, we consider how, despite the difficulties, we can continue to engage with and be inspired by the scriptures.

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    Mentioned in this episode:

    • Wicked
    • Dune: Part One
    • Dune: Part Two
    • Nick Page, The Badly Behaved Bible
    • Gregory Macdonald, The Evangelical Universalist
    • Midrash
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