BWJ 5. What God Really Wants

In this latest BWJ talk Tony looks at an intriguing mistranslation by the NIV of a key verse in Jeremiah 7 – and unpacks how that ‘mistranslation’ actually shines a light on the big current debate over the ‘holiness’ of God versus the ‘mercy of God’. He puts forward this controversial claim: “if you start with the ‘holiness’ of God as his primary attribute, you can’t find your way to the true gospel.” So where do we start? Listen and enjoy.

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BWJ 20. Ezekiel and the Ubiquitous God

BWJ 19. Ezekiel and the Grand Inquisitor - part 2

BWJ 18. Ezekiel and the Grand Inquisitor

BWJ 17. Idolatry in the OT

BWJ 16. Ezekiel and the Angry God

BWJ 15. Introduction to Ezekiel

BWJ 14. Allegory; were the Patristics right or badly wrong?

BWJ 13. Bad ways (and better ways) to read Jeremiah

BWJ 12. Jesus, Jeremiah and Gehenna

BWJ 11. Jeremiah Buys a Field, part two - Hope

BWJ 10. Jeremiah Buys a Field, part one - Eschatology

BWJ 9. How the law of Moses failed to deliver what God wanted

BWJ 8. The Problems of Performance based Christianity – and the Covenant without Conditions

BWJ 7. Knowledge of God as the goal of life

BWJ 6. The worst translation in the Bible?

BWJ 4. Jeremiah and Homer; a Surprising contrast

BWJ 3. Jeremiah and the Angry God?

BWJ 2. The Social Impacts of Evangelical Theology on modern America

BWJ 1. First Fruits in Jeremiah

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