Moral values of people in the Bible, especially in the Hebrew portion (the Christian Old Testament) pose a problem. There are rules and regulations that do not seem very important to us, while there are practices, such as slavery, or depopulating whole cities in a war, that the God either seems to ignore, or even condone. And we're not even getting to the laws that God commands that seem too harsh or even barbaric by our standards today. If God is good, why does God not teach better morality to the people in the Bible?

But, here's an even more basic question. Why would you think that God is good?

What did people mean, and what does Christianity mean, by saying that God is good? If that is what it means for God to be good, again, what was God trying to teach the people in the Bible, and what are we to learn from that?

We will begin to explore that in this episode.

1:56 Morality, evolution, and gods

9:55 God, as Being, Truth, Goodness

19:05 The problem of morality in the Bible

25:13 God accommodates to our moral level and why

31:26 Moral truths the Bible is really teaching

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