Ask NT Wright Anything — Jesus and God's wrath, was the Holy Spirit in the OT and did God really command violence?

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Jesus and God's wrath, was the Holy Spirit in the OT and did God really command violence?

Ask NT Wright Anything

How do we make sense of some of the Bible's most difficult passages? In this episode, Tom Wright and Mike Bird discuss Jesus and divine judgment, the role of the Holy Spirit throughout Scripture, and the troubling problem of violence in the Old Testament. These are not easy questions, but they are questions many…

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