Is God A Sadistic Father? with Kasey Leander
On today’s episode of the Finding Something REAL podcast, Janell speaks with RZIM speaker Kasey Leander.. They talk about Kasey’s Christian journey and about his time working with RZIM. This conversation addresses the Old Testament and how it is meant to challenge us. Instead of focusing on whether God is a God of love or hate, the question they seek to answer is “What is God like?” Kasey speaks about how the stories of Jonah and the story of Pharaoh’s heart being hardened shed light on the truth of God’s character. We hope you enjoy this episode!
Mentioned in this episode:
RZIM: Kasey Leander
Kasey Leander on Instagram
Oxford Center Christian Apologetics
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FSR Episode with Justin Brierley
God’s Sovereignty with Francis Chan
God’s Sovereignty with David Platt
FSR Episode with Josh White
FSR Episode with Jon Dommel
RZIM: Amy Orr-Ewing
Is God a Moral Monster? by Paul Copan
RZIM: Jo Vitale
Ask Away Podcast with Jo & Vince Vitale
Bible Verses
Ezekiel 33:11 "Say to them, 'As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that they turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! Why will you die, people of Israel?'"
Jonah 4:2 “ He prayed to the Lord, “Isn’t this what I said, Lord, when I was still at home? That is what I tried to forestall by fleeing to Tarshish. I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in love, a God who relentsfrom sending calamity.
Isaiah 55
“Come, all you who are thirsty,
come to the waters;
and you who have no money,
come, buy and eat!
Come, buy wine and milk
without money and without cost.
2 Why spend money on what is not bread,
and your labor on what does not satisfy?
Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good,
and you will delight in the richest of fare.
3 Give ear and come to me;
listen, that you may live.
I will make an everlasting covenant with you,
my faithful love promised to David.
4 See, I have made him a witness to the peoples,
a ruler and commander of the peoples.
5 Surely you will summon nations you know not,
and nations you do not know will come running to you,
because of the Lord your God,
the Holy One of Israel,
for he has endowed you with splendor.”
6 Seek the Lord while he may be found;
call on him while he is near.
7 Let the wicked forsake their ways
and the unrighteous their thoughts.
Let them turn to the Lord, and he will have mercy on them,
and to our God, for he will freely pardon.
8 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways,”
declares the Lord.
9 “As the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
10 As the rain and the snow
come down from heaven,
and do not return to it
without watering the earth
and making it bud and flourish,
so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater,
11 so is my word that goes out from my mouth:
It will not return to me empty,
but will accomplish what I desire
and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.
12 You will go out in joy
and be led forth in peace;
the mountains and hills
will burst into song before you,
and all the trees of the field
will clap their hands.
13 Instead of the thornbush will grow the juniper,
and instead of briers the myrtle will grow.
This will be for the Lord’s renown,
for an everlasting sign,
that will endure forever.”