In this episode of Bible Talk, Alex Duke chats with Jim Hamilton and Sam Emadi about a towering Old Testament figure: Abram of the Chaldeans. What kind of man is he? Is he just a wandering Canaanite? Or is he something more akin to a king? They discuss all this and more in the episode.<\/p>\n
SHOW NOTES<\/strong><\/p>\n 1:50 \/ What do we know about Abram before God starts speaking to him in Genesis 12? Is he just a regular Canaanite guy?<\/p>\n 3:05 \/ Explain to us the promises Genesis 12:1\u20133. Why are they\u2014land, seed, blessing, kingship\u2014so hugely important?<\/p>\n 7:20 \/ Is God just telling Abraham “go get a realtor and relocate”? What’s the cost to Abraham in God’s command in Genesis 12:1ff?<\/p>\n 8:55 \/ How does the immediate context of Babel inform what’s going on in Genesis 12? How is Genesis 12 a response to the whole of Genesis 1\u201311?<\/p>\n 11:00 \/ How do these promises to Abram get interpreted throughout the rest of the Bible? Does Moses want us to connect Genesis 12 to Genesis 3?<\/p>\n 17:05 \/ Should Abram have even gone down to Egypt with his wife? How should we understand this sinful and cowardly moment in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In this episode of Bible Talk, Alex Duke chats with Jim Hamilton and Sam Emadi about a towering Old Testament figure: Abram of the Chaldeans. What kind of man is he?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[793],"tags":[3030,322],"class_list":["post-25458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9marks","tag-bible-talk","tag-preaching-theology","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25458"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25460,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25458\/revisions\/25460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}