Matthew Lynch – Flood and Fury

What do we do with a God who sanctions violence?

Brent talks with Matthew Lynch, associate professor of Old Testament at Regent College in Vancouver, Canada about his new IVP book ‘Flood and Fury – Old Testament Violence and the Shalom of God’.

Matthew is the author of a number of books and the co-founder of the OnScript podcast, a podcast focused on providing engaging conversations on Bible and theology.  

• (0:56) What do we do with violence in the Old Testament?
• (1:40) What do people struggle with in the Old Testament?
• (3:10) God’s anger and His justice;
• (4:50) Violent texts;
• (6:49) Reading the Old Testament towards Jesus;
• (9:15) Violence and the creation account;
• (12:37) How violence ruins creation;
• (14:30) God’s grief over violence in the Flood narrative;
• (16:38) Justice after the Flood;
• (19:00) The Canaanites;
• (11:00) 2 perspectives on the Conquest.

Links mentioned in this episode:

www.ivpress.com

www.amazon.com/Flood-Fury-Testament-Violence-Shalom/dp/1514004291

onscript.podbean.com

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