Dumb Christian

About Dumb Christian

The Dumb Christian is an effort to dive into the depths of the Bible in colorful ways using modern sensibilities and language to understand stories, cultures, laws, and actions that often leave us confused or even disturbed. We explore both the Old and New Testaments while tying in details from historical contexts that helps lay the groundwork for what's really going on. Dumb Christian is not meant to be any kind of final revelation but simply a place to explore scripture in ways we've not been able to before.

Publisher

Jonathan Burian

Category

religion & spirituality

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

4 May 2022

Latest episode

1 May 2023

Latest episodes

101 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   1 May 2023

   Building A Covenant (Exodus 34-40) | Season 2 Finale

   We're about to see a repeat of something we've already read and yet despite the fact that it might be a nuisance to a modern reader, it meant something very specific to the original ancient reader. We're about to see some unique features of the ancient Israel culture and what they mean when they talk about God visiting the sins of the fathers to the 3rd and 4th generation.

2. 

   26 Apr 2023

   The Failure of Good Intentions (Exodus 32-33) | Do we get worship God however we want to?

   In this episode we are interrupted from a conversation between Moses and God due to the people of Israel coming up with their own system of worship that actually flies directly in the face of what YHWH has clearly expressed he wants from his people. God gets mad, Moses gets mad, there's some shouting and some crying and God ultimately threatens to abandon Israel. Is God playing reverse psychology or did he really mean it?

3. 

   24 Apr 2023

   Recreating Eden... well kind of (Exodus 26-31) | How God can dwell with His people again.

   God is creating a whole method for dwelling with his people among His creation. In constructing a tabernacle his is also setting the stage for how it can be possible for him to reside among people who continually sin, rebel against him, and reject his laws. Although this place of worship resembles some other pagan worship sites again God's purpose is taking things they are familiar with and reorienting the way they interact with, and understand what it means to enter Holy places.

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