Season 2! Matt and Josh start off a series on God by talking about the ancient conceptions of the “gods,” and how they often make Bible-readers uncomfortable and don’t fit neatly into any modern conceptions of the world.

CHAPTERS:

00:00 Intro
00:10 Summer Blockbusters
05:04 Book and Movie Recs
10:01 God Is Not an Old Man in the Sky
12:15 Why We Don’t Know What We’re Talking About
14:09 Lowercase g gods
25:19 Multiple gods
27:10 Tangent
29:50 Gods as Cosmic, Personal Forces
38:45 The Divine Council in the Scriptures
49:16 Outro

Books or references:
Desiring the Kingdom by James KA Smith
How to Be a Sinner by Peter Bouteneff

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