S3E5: Let's start thinking about the personality of God

07/08/22 • 34 min

For ages, people have ascribed personality to their deities. What was their reasoning?
And what would be the personality of God that speaks forth all things? How should we start thinking about this? And what about Abram, Sarai, and their family? What was the personality of God that spoke to them? How did they begin to learn Who God was in their lives, and what did they experience?
2:12 Our cognitive predisposition to belief in gods
8:40 How we ascribe personality to gods
14:39 What would be the personality of “God”?
19:00 The role of Promise in personal relationship with God
25:50 Abram and Sarai try to fulfill God’s promise themselves
30:25 God makes a separate promise to Hagar
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The first extra episode for Season 3; the next main episode (S3E5) will go live early July.
(update: there were more delays, so I couldn't complete the new episode by the end of June as I had originally planned. I apologize for the delay!)
This episode addresses the more "meta" question about this series that I wanted to go over before releasing the next episode--what this series has been doing, how it has approached the questions and issues it has explored so far, and where this series is now heading. It also drops hints of future plans, and some long overdue thanks at the end.
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But, before we can ask those questions, we should've asked this more basic question: Why would you think that God is good?
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[ Update: the previous version of this episode has been split into 2 episodes. The new version of this episode expands on the first half, and explores the Genesis account of the city of Sodom and its destruction. The next episode (S3E7) will expand on the second half. ]
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What do you mean God speaks? - S3E5: Let's start thinking about the personality of God

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It is interesting how, throughout history, humanity has ascribed different personalities to the powers and forces in the world around them. For the ancients, the open sky was a person; the vast stretches of the earth was a person; the forest, the rivers, the sea, the sun, moon, and the stars, the raging storm, ravaging disease, mountains spewing fire, were all persons. Even abstract concepts like justice, wisdom, commerce,