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Making Sense of the Old Testament: 3 Crucial Questions is unavailable, but you can change that!

Though essential to the Christian faith, the Old Testament remains an enigma to many. Some view it as disjointed and difficult to understand, or as nothing more than a collection of archaic documents, irrelevant for Christians today. In clear and concise language, Tremper Longman addresses three questions to help resolve this problem: • What are the keys to understanding the Old Testament? ...

Note that most of the metaphors for God that we encounter in the Old Testament are relationship metaphors. God’s fatherhood presupposes our sonship. God as a warrior implies that we are soldiers in his army. Since relationship is so crucial to our human experience, we find ourselves drawn to these Old Testament metaphors to understand ourselves. Along the same line, Christians find themselves attracted to the Old Testament in the hope that we might there gain insight into how
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