Many Christians secretly struggle to reconcile the God of the Old Testament with the Jesus of the New Testament. We moralize the stories, skip the violent passages, and treat the text like a checklist of dos and don'ts rather than a testimony of our Savior.

Today, Chad Bird (Scholar in Residence at 1517) joins host Charlie Ungemach to tear down the wall between the Testaments. We dig into the raw, uncomfortable, and "hidden" places of the Hebrew Scriptures—from the trauma of the Exile to the bloody logic of the sacrificial system—to prove that the God of Abraham is the exact same Jesus who died for you on Calvary.

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• Book: The Christ Key: Unlocking the Old Testament — https://a.co/d/0hj2yWe4

• Free 1517 Academy Courses: > * Christ in the Old Testament — https://www.1517.org/courses/christ-in-the-old-testament

• Survey of Christ in the Old Testament — https://www.1517.org/courses/survey-of-christ-in-the-old-testament

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