God was showing us the weight of sacrificing a beloved son. And then He sacrificed his own beloved in Jesus without requiring it from us. His love is perfect and i cant wait to go home.

“If you rightly understand yourself and your human nature, and you rightly understand the character and nature of God - and you need both of those pieces, because one requires humility and one requires acceptance-if you have both of those pieces in place, you will be so excited by who God is and what God has done for us.” “If you don’t want Christianity to be true, you don’t rightly understand it.” Very good!😊

This was truly enlightening. Thank you, Paul copan and thank you Brandon

Blessings and thanks to you Dr. Copan! I wrote a paper on your book, “Is God a Moral Monster”, back in college 10 years ago! Thank you for helping teach me how to think ♥️

It’s bizarre that people forget that the whole point was that God didn’t want Isaac to be sacrificed, and that the Canaanites were irredeemably evil.

"Why is there so much skepticism and resistance to the biblical God but so much openness and curiosity to the general spiritual?" Such a great question. This is something I think about a lot and something that irritates me more than it probably should.

This is awesome Brandon, I'm very impressed you got Paul Copan to sit with you for an in-person interview! You're moving on up!

Awesome timing! I'm currently reading his book!!! So excited to listen to you guys

Appreciate the deep insights you bring to the Word of God. It's truly enlightening.

It AMAZES me how some humans stand on this moral highground of how can God do this, how can God fo that...who do we think we are??...God CREATED any good thing that is in us!...and we think we can judge him??...he's the one who judges us!...also scripture CLEARLY states that HIS ways are not OUR ways!...there's many things we don't understand...I thank him daily that I don't have this kind of heart to question things I don't understand in scripture and to judge the morality of the one who GAVE us morality! 31:50

So looking forward to each episode of this series!

Yes, it is a much-needed conversation. It is important to always research in good faith and charitably. This is in contrast to researching in a hypercritical/skeptical mindset where you look for the worst interpretation.

This is your best video so far brother.... What a blessing Keep doing what you are doing.. The Law is still good. Matthew 5:17-19

I appreciate these talks where they engage with the challenges rather than discounting their impact. The episode of @apologeticsroadshow, where he breaks down the story of Abraham and Isaac, is the most impacted rendering I've ever heard.

This is wild I was just talking about this idea with some of my friends today. It’s so difficult to understand the ethics in the Bible in instances like Abraham being told to sacrifice his son Isaac, but I found that God will never ask you to follow through on something that is contradictory to Gods character. It may be hard to believe but God will never tell you to do something that violates Gods own character

Thank you both for a really uplifting interview! Looking forward to the next one! 😃 God bless you both 🤗

I don’t know if you’re done filming the series or whatever, but if you’re open to discussing specific points with Copan, could you guys maybe talk about the times in the Bible when God made Israelites inflict horrific punishments on each other? I’m a Christian but that’s one of my biggest stumbling blocks in trusting the goodness of God…in any other context, we’d say telling a group of people gather round and smash someone to death with rocks because they were picking up sticks to start a fire is straight out of one of the Saw movies, but it was actually a command from God. There are a few other similar instances like this that really hold me back. I’d love some clarity here. Thank you for what you’re doing 🙏🏻

Looking forward to the other discussions with Paul! Thank you for sharing!!

Appreciate this, Brandon and Paul. Thank you!

Thanks to God for the start of this series. Looking forward to what will be spoke and already has been, like the slavery issue in this video.

Hey man, happy to see you doing some podcast style videos. I appreciate the work you do!

God is good!

I do feel you touched on an important point, that people do not want Christianity to be true. I think that is a massive part of how they approach and read the Old Testament. They do not want to or do not care to approach the O.T. in a way where they want to understand it. They would rather see the "buzz words" like slave and utterly destroy and just run with that as a proof against Christianity. The challenge then comes to get those people who have this preconceived idea against Christianity and the Bible to understand or to be more charitable in their understanding of the text, which i have found to be close to impossible once they made up their minds. But Dr Copan's books might be an amazing resource to give/recommend to actual seeker/skeptics. Thanks for this video and series! Looking forward to the rest of it. God bless you and Dr Copan in this endeavour!

11:27 OK, the titles are kinda funny just blurted out like that. On a more serious note, as an atheist-agnostic, this is one of the best Christian-themed YT channels I've seen.

Amazing! More please!

I went from atheist to believer in a split second when Christ Jesus revealed himself to me. Looking back on my own behavior and seeing other atheists who argue with me, I am convinced that atheism is a fit of solipsism. People want to be their own god and make things their own way. If not solipsism, then dishonest paganism. My own mother says she is an atheist but believes in “Mother Nature” and “goodness”. That is idolatry and pagan, making your own god.

The atheist/skeptic needs to understand we will get rewarded for sharing the Truth but it is not a seeking for self desire but, rather, a desire to see people set free in Christ. True shalom comes thru Jesus within, amen

Well now I have to go get Paul's book.😄

Ohmygoodness, I’m reading Paul Copan’s book presently. This is terrific that you’re talking with him!!!!

Looking forward to this series. Great idea

I really love the Prelude in E Minor (Op. 28 No. 4) by Chopin played on the harp in the intro!

I love the content and I bought Paul’s book can’t wait to hear more. 👍🏽

You did it again Brandon! Another great video! ✝️🙏

Love God of life for the living as a Child with Thy sincere conversations longing to LEARN. Remember do not murder my innocents little Minds God's glory! Which ye all came from 1st. What is old minds? Love you beloved and my pop without shame but with boldness! Sincere conversations =sincere answers

A loving relationship is voluntary that is why God cannot force himself on all of us. Thank God the Patriarchs responded and now we have knowledge of God and how He lives us. Regarding your doubts on how this knowledge has been preserved all this time, you'll be happy to know that most scholars agree that the words of the Bible have been preserved quite well.

“Why is there so much skepticism for the biblical God, but so much openness to the spiritual?” So many ways we can tackle this question. For the non-believer, the Christian God is just one potential option under the supernatural/spiritual umbrella. So they could easily say “Allah in the Quaran doesn’t seem real, but I still feel like there’s something bigger than me going on”. This is how a lot of people think, even if they leave Christianity they don’t feel like they’re leaving god, and they go on to form other supernatural beliefs. You started by talking about atheists that just didn’t want this to be true (a weird position I’ve never really understood, or encountered), and then shifted to people who want ouija boards to function. I don’t think these two people are the same.

Atheists don't want God to be true bc once they do, they convict themselves of their sins.

Excellent interview, thanks for sharing, Brandon!

SO WELL SAID BROTHER. I fully agree with you that if people rightly understand who God and Jesus Christ are and what is suggested/promised, they would want God to be true and real more than ANYTHING ELSE in existence, because it would mean that God is the well of meaning for each of us, the author and finisher of our lives as they say, and the source of anything and everyone we have ever loved, and the only one who knows how to orchestrate the symphony of our lives, and provide the landscape for us to grow through that life, rather than be lost in a void and perish. Also, God would then be the one who maintains eternal structures and one who can bring us all together again, and see to it that we are reunited with him and everyone/thing dear to us. We could take it so far as to suggest that the very ground we walk on is a blessing from God. It is. All of our health, and the fact that we have ground to tread forward on, is a blessing. Of course I struggle with various interpretations of God's potential character myself, and also find myself averse to some of the descriptions going around between people, as well as written in the Bible. Still, more than anything, we are infinitely lucky and blessed beyond grasping, if we really are in the bosom of a loving and infinitely wise creator who never sleeps, etc... I love this vide, because I have no problem whatsoever believing God is very possible or even likely in some form despite my own doubts and blindness, but what I DO have a problem with and struggle with moreso is wondering about the nature of God and if he is really good in the way I think we all need. Anyway, I could ramble and I'm probably not even conveying the resonance and overlap of mutual concerns that I'm so excited to see discussed by you and other people. Great video and channel brother. I look forward to meeting you, in this life, or God-willing, in eternity 😉🙌

Love the approach to this topic. Appreciate you and your team.

Excited for this.

Great video. Lot of stuff to think on

Love this. Hope to see you have Frank Turek on for an interview some day too!

rape in OT was death. The passage about marrying is when non married people are caught in the act and not married, consensual sex.

Great show, looking forward to the next one.

Is God was, there would be no hope for any of us. All of our abilities, every single one of them, are made possible by God. The ability to do anything good, to be able to think correctly or rationally in any way, is from God. Anything good about us is from God. We can't make a single right move without Him. Anything we do that is morally good is made possible only by God.

🎉🎉🎉Awsome book!!! 🎉🎉🎉

This was Great I learned alot Looking forward to more

excited for this series!

I may not always agree with or understand God's moral decisions when reading the Bible but I would rather trust His morals over my own or some other person's subjective morals. Without God, we just make up our own moral code as we see fit, and just look where that has gotten us.

Thomas Paine liked Jesus. He said of the Old Testament: “Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon, than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness, that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it, as I detest everything that is cruel.”

This is so enlightening!

Hey I will love to see you have a conversation with Voodie Baucham, I believe that will be a great conversation.

One of the biggest most shocking things I read in the bible was in Numbers 15, where a guy was stoned for gathering sticks on the Sabbath...which is made worse by the fact that is the only commandment Christ kind of said was not all that important. A guy was killed in a very brutal way for doing something Christ rejected/changed. He even did work himself, healing people and allowed people to harvest grain on the Sabbath. That one bugged me as a believer, so I can see why atheists have issues with such things. I am looking forward to other episodes of this.

This has been so helpful! So much light for the broader context that Dr. Paul Copan gives that I had not really considered. I'm so much blessed by these shared insights🤍

4:10 The "what about" argument is valid if it's pointing out a contradiction. Your god is all loving? What about hell? Your God is just? What about one guy opening the ark of the covenant and tens of thousands of people dying? That's valid.

Great conversation and topics. One thing I'd like to see in the next video is a change in the camera angles. Normally if you can see someone's eyes it feels like the viewer is part of the conversation. But this time it really felt he was only talking to you, because we couldn't see his eyes. Hopefully this is a useful tip. God bless you!

One objection that I seem to come across when it comes to slavery is, if God forbid murder specifically in the 10 commandments why didn’t He forbid slavery in that same way.

God is Holy Holy Holy, God is perfect, and good in all his ways, righteous anger is good. What you have to understand is we are all sinners and have sinned against a perfect God and we all deserve Hell. He created us we rebelled and then he came to earth when he didn't have to to save us. We are the problem not God, but he can save us through Jesus christ sacrifice when we accept it.

When I was an atheist I rejected the Biblical God because I was at last a grown-up, making my own decisions and mistakes for which I had to pay. Becoming Christian meant going back to being a child, putting myself under the thumb of a new parent who demands my obedience or else. Why would I volunteer for such a thing? I'd have to be crazy. This is why other gods were always more appealing to me.

Thanks a lot for doing this. Really appreciate it

The point is, Abraham thought it perfectly normal and acceptable for god to demand human sacrifice. The only moral response to being asked to kill your child is "f-off!", and let's not pretend Christianity is not a cult of human sacrifice, it does, after all, celebrate one human sacrifice, as if it was successful...

26:38 “that God has good reasons for allowing history to play itself out and that he's he's achieving his purpose” And what would that good reason be?

Please do more of these!

Isaiah 45:7 says it all, god had some messed up commands, and Jesus promoted this (Matt. 4:4).

Gotta be honest, I was expecting more/better answers, especially as Turek often recommends this guy's book. I get that he didn't try to answer many of the major questions, but the ones he even delved into slightly I felt unsatisfied. God must be Good, or He is not worth worshiping/trusting. God also must be never-changing, else we cannot trust He will change His mind on what constitutes morality. Hoping that there will be better answers once Paul takes some time to deep-delve some of these questions rather than skimming them in description. I believe God is Good, and Just, and Trustworthy. I take this as an axiom, therefore when I see passages in the Bible that describe a God who is essentially acting evil, then I distrust those passages, not the nature of God. But then, I'm not sold on inerrancy, so it isn't as much of a problem for me, but these are valid serious questions for fellow believers.

I’m happy to grant that the Israelites could have been *more* moral than the cultures around them, I’m happy to grant there are verses that do imply extra care for the foreigners, but this doesn’t make some of the very objectionable parts go away. Even if we’re only addressing the servitude aspects and not the massacring of distant lands and keeping the women and children as plunder, there are still some really messed up parts. For example, if an Israelite gives his servant a wife and that wife bears children, when the servant is able to go free on the 7th year, the woman and children of the servant remain under ownership of the master. If the servant wants to remain with his family (his nuclear family), then he is to have his ear pierced and commit to a life of servant hood to the master. So while on one hand we’re saying “voluntary servitude is more like a working contract! It’s fine” and on the other hand we laws that hold the family of a servant hostage (functionally speaking) if he wants to stay with them. Also, fathers are able to give their daughters away as servants, but they are not to go free on the seventh year as the male servants are. These verses make loads of sense when viewed from the lens of natural history, but they seem *very* hard to square with a God who is best seen in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus. I’ve never heard a compelling explanation to these types of verses.

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In addition, if u read the book of Ezekiel 20:25-26, God later explains His reason for giving the Israelites harsh laws when they lived in the wilderness.

My theory on Abraham. Human sacrifice was a common practice. God wanted to dramatically show that this wasn’t man’s ideal, so a substantial lamb was provided. It’s the only reasonable explanation.

“We know who God is and He tells us how to live a right life in this book here” people: 😡😡😡 “here are a couple crystals, they will make you happy and make you rich, also God is whatever you want, nobody can know who God really is” people: 😮

The thing I always wonder when someone makes this sort of argument... based upon what standard are you judging God?

I also read the OT as an atheist and found it horrible. I now realise that it is written by and for an ancient human mind, it needs to address the categories of those minds. It can't really go outside those categories, except in very broad brushes through typology and symbolic referring to stuff we perhaps later could understand. Also, a lot of it's meaning is lost on us, unless we understand that it must carefully manage a balance between using existing notions, and telling something new, and use the space carefully, it's not even actually texts but oral transmission and memory which is the limits. Not only are there concepts we have now that didn't exist. There are also things that are lost to our consciousness which was readily available to the ancient one. Such as the concept of wind-breath-spirit, which is just one we know of. These things were not distinguished between, neither in OT or NT, btw. They are one and the same. When you read "the wind blows where it will...and so it is with everyone born of the spirit", it should actually be read "the spirit blows where it will...and so it is with everyone born of the spirit", or "the wind blows where it will...and so it is with everyone born of the wind", or "the breath blows where it will...and so it is with everyone born of the breath", or actually all of them at the same time, plus any mix of them. Translstors aren't often thinking deeply about how words can point to wildly differing concepts than exist today. They usually assume it means one of our modern concepts, like it's just a word that means different things, which is normal to us. But it's not, it's actually s unified concept. And most words traced back were like this, united concepts which to some degree might overlap with our concepts, and sometimes not so well. To really translate as well as possible requires using many more words than in the original. But then you risk adding stuff as well. It's really difficult. My final point is, while we must keep scriptures sentral, we must also approach them in a mystical fashion, humbly, as a strange creature we do not know. Christ in us, is what we need to first and foremost live out, and scripture used as a weird and mysterious inherited object of wild treasure and infinite potential, but not something we "figured out", and heave the correct view on.

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JESUS IS LIVE!

13:08 “It's I have encountered God through Christ and it becomes the central feature of your life it becomes the thing that guides all else and the thing uh that elevates” Very nice rhetoric, but how did you encounter god through Christ and how was he different from the savage described in the Old Testament?

So Dawkins would possibly answer the question of "why do we have fingerprints?", with "Science just works?" Science doesn't care about holding you accountable for your actions, but God might.

Universal balance encapsulates what the original creator consists of... The ability to do as much harm as show love. The reason Christianity would be the wisest decision on humanities part is because it stops there. Nobody thinks any further.... But the ultimate truth of the world is that it has no concern with forgiveness and love. That will work itself out regardless. But the more you push in one direction, the counterbalance is automatically created out of that... I love Jesus, believe in Jesus and wish that's what this was. But here? The world is upside down. No good deed goes unpunished...

Hell NO! The embassarment that hit me for putting up with false teaching 😅 caused me to see why God commanded what he commanded in order to protect us from getting eaten by evil

Just looking at the bite out of the apple on the computer. 🤔

The bible is God's love letter to humanity. When he proclaims himself as a jealous God, he lets us know his boundaries as the creator of the universe. He is not going to let us go into the hands of the enemy or false idols without a fierce fight. But he is a gentleman that will come into your house and stay as long as you allow him too. He loves us so much and gave us a guide to life and to stay aware and away from the pitfalls of this world. The bible is not just a book of things that happened. It's a book of prophecy and a book of love and laws written for the protection of a species that was violated and betrayed by a previous creation.

Aaaaah again, some questions here. I think I heard Dr Paul compare ancient slavery to modern sport players, because they are also « traded ». Yea. Servitude versus millions of dollars. I mean Yea. Okay… But just to check some things here : - Are you 2 saying that slavery was « good », or « better » ? Where do you get your references, in an ancient world full of blood rituals, murders, barbarism, etc. - Did parents sell their children as slaves for money in ancient Israel ? Was it moral ? - As Malachi 3-6 says, God does not change. Same yesterday, today and tomorrow. Do you apply that same biblical morality to your modern life today ? - I think servitude is called human trafficking today. Slave means, according to most dictionaries, deprived of liberty and fundamental rights. Do you think they were playing Monopoly with their slaves at that time ? Instead of beating them, raping them and consider them full property ? Do you think it was « not so bad » ? - talking about morality, Do you believe that any context at all could justify stoning to death an adulterous woman ? Ancient times included. From a God that doesn’t change, once again. - Do you think Adam lived 930 years ? Just saying, as we talk about the Old Testament, this a major topic that stops many people from believing. As we all know, life expectancy in the ancient times you know…. Sometimes, atheists, very often ex-believers, really want « God » to be true. I mean, think about it : it simplifies a lot of things. We also look for meaning, truth, have existential questions. It’s such a claim you are making here. Why do you think atheists would have a problem with a divine authority ? Because they « want to sin » ? I won’t even start on sexual inter courses between 80 years old man and his daughters, treatment of homosexuals or people eating shellfish or wearing mixed fabrics, etc. Again, no offense, just waiting for real answers. « Looking forward » too 👍

Sometimes my challenge with discussing the Biblical issues with regards to women is that we fail to adequately admit the complexity of ancient societies and how the men didn't have it easy compared to women. The average man was sent to war as a young man and died. They didn't get to even be treated poorly, they were just sacrificed in war, whether in defence of their people or in seeking to secure enough posterity to even merit reproduction. So we can't just discuss the woes of females in those context as if they were oppressed and the men had it easy. When it comes down to the very basic "animalistic" desires, more women got to reproduce while most men didn't. So we have to be careful when talking about these and almost apologising for the laws in the OT - which were by far more empowering for women, considering context. Life in those times weren't easy for anybody.

Father God almighty knows that mortal human existence is temporal, created for his purpose. Who are we to judge God's morality?

As a child, I would have dreams in be in many nightmares where underground tentacle monsters could sense my slightest movement and impel me, wars, dreams of persecution, the grim reaper, things would get wild. I remember calling on the old testament name of God Jehovah, and I remember things did not end well for me when I was being assaulted by a witch. However, ever sense I was a child the name of Jesus has never failed me, when I began to call on his name Even recently, a spider demon with a human face around the size a 42" TV was crawling on my wall when I awoke from my sleep. I spoke the name of Jesus quite a few times and I attained Mercy unto myself, for that because Jesus has the authority for this reason. John 3:35 " He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him." 1 John 2:23 "Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: (but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also." I believe that God cares for his creation and dosen't want to lose them, because I believed in Jesus and had the humility to honor his name many times throughout my life. I attained mercy through the New Covenant, agreement, or Testament. Only parts of the old still apply. The old prepared place for the New. I believe Love is many things, and is doing many things read 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 (KJV) and study the langauge of the time (Middle English) and do for yourself an order of operations properly like you would use in Algebra. A few things I believe Love does it when you matter greatly it is a kindness(: an act to preserve and help you), that never lies to you. I will always believe in Jesus and will burn anything that comes against his word in my heart. I should add when I saw Mr. Spider Demon (Who had the face of a man with spider legs) I was in great fear and panic, but when I called on Jesus and continued calling out his name and like in any good relationship with enduring faith and belief I attained peace and serenity by his mercy. John 1:1-5 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 The same was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men. 5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. Darkness in hebrew is often a metaphor for ignorance. Proverbs 4:19 “The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.” A concept of the word is the idea that is behind it or what should pop into your head by what the author is meaning. If you do not have the idea of the word correct you have a misconception and it changes the whole story.

Torture, murder, and enslavement are only immoral when humans do it.

Here is what I would like to know. Why does God treat the people of Israel (and other nations also) as if they were one entity? For example, God sends them prophets over many years, telling them to stop their evil practices and warning them of the punishment that will be theirs if they continue to disobey. Finally, he brings judgment upon them, perhaps hundreds of years later. So generations of sinning people were able to live in their land, but then one or two generations take everyone's punishment and spend their lives in exile. Or, in the case of the Canaanites, one generation is punished when the Israelites are told to kill them.

I read the Bible, and only through the lens of apologetics can someone have a good portion of it make sense, or mean something other than it says. What lets me know it's mostly bull is the fact that it needs apologetics in the first place, and through apologetics some one can make it mean whatever they want. It's why there are so many different sects and denominations, and why people kill each other over the different views they have of the same text. The more ignorant, and superstitious e.g. "religious", you can keep the masses, the easier it is to control them. It's much harder to control someone that's skeptical than someone having faith what you say is true. Through religion people are taught the false assumption that faith is a virtue, when it's really just being gullible and believing something without evidence. "You take it on faith". Even the authors of the Bible knew faith is just hoping and wanting something to be true. Hebrews 11:1 "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." On a different note. Matthew 10:34-36, 34 “Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. 35 For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. 36 And a person's enemies will be those of his own household." and then there's, Luke 14:26, 26 “If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters-yes, even their own life-such a person cannot be my disciple". I've heard differing apologetics as to the meaning of these verses, I take the verses to mean what they say. I have a cousin that is not welcomed to my aunt's house as she disowned him because he quit believing in God. My cousin still loves my aunt very much and wants to have a relationship but she demands he must believe in Jesus again or she will not recognize him as her son and wants nothing to do with him. I am also not welcome to my aunt's house since she learned I was the one that opened my cousin's eyes to the fact that religion is nothing more than institutionalized myth and superstition used to control the gullible masses. Jesus supposedly said, "I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.", and my aunt is using that "sword" against my cousin and me, just as the context suggests. This is just a sample of things that need apologetics to make it mean something other than what it actually says, there is so much more that it would take a book to cover it all.

Is episode 2 out yet? Please help tackle Lev 25 in detail

The whataboutism is irrelevant bc those same people have no issue with making gods of their idols through celebrity. They also have no issue playing God through the arts and creativity. No one would call a painter evil for scrapping a painting. But somehow God is evil for doing away with his creation which he knows has an afterlife. That comes from us being made in the image of God. We develop ego. We try to play God, but even with our own creations on earth we can never be true creators because we can’t fabricate. We can only procreate. Use tools and a created mind to bring forth the manifestation of our ideas.

2 Samuel 12 Niv 11“This is what the Lord says: ‘Out of your own household I am going to bring calamity on you. Before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to one who is close to you, and he will sleep with your wives in broad daylight. 12You did it in secret, but I will do this thing in broad daylight before all Israel.’ ” Whether you think David deserved embarrassment or not, would you say it is moral to expose little kids to naked orgys?

Job 4:17 " Can a man be more righteous than God"? So if one ask a question about God being a "moral monster" is like saying their are people who uphold a higher moral standard than Him.

16:42 “NEAR EASTERN TRASH TALK there's hyperbole there's an exaggeration which is common in Egyptian Assyrian accounts and so forth and the Bible picks up on that uh you know so that's helpful to know there's hyperbole there's an exaggeration.” Thanks, I could not explain the Bible better. I shall remember this one.

So when do You guys talk about Isaac ? Did I miss that ?

I feel like people purposely leave out the part that it was a test when they say “God told Abraham to kill his son Isaac”. Like blatantly being disingenuous to the point of that, to show how wicked the people were that they were going to drive out, as the Lord has never told anyone to sacrifice anyone to Him, nor did it ever cross His mind.

If truth is inherently good for us to know then let it be known. But if truth isn't inherently good for us, who then would want to know it? If we seek truth for our benefit, would we still seek truth if we knew it would be to our detriment? What if no god is responsible for truth? Why then would one believe that truth will be beneficial? In other words, why believe that a mindlessly created or mindless eternal reality that you inhabit would provide you with what would benefit you rather than what would be to your detriment? And to what extent, truth properly interpreted, be beneficial for us? Would you still honor truth if truth would ruin you? If truth was your enemy rather than your friend? If truth was a poison rather than a cure? And by truth, I mean reality properly understood.

Guys don’t expect to get a several hundred page book explained here, buy the book and engage with it with what the Bible says.

23 He went up from there to Bethel, and while he was going up on the way, some small boys came out of the city and jeered at him, saying, “Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!” 24 And he turned around, and when he saw them, he cursed them in the name of the LORD. And two she-bears came out of the woods and tore forty-two of the boys. 25 From there he went on to Mount Carmel, and from there he returned to Samaria. There must be some explanation why this doesn't say what it says.

I interviewed Dr Copan on my channel and he is excellent.