the Bible is a pretty weird book

Описание: I’ve been reading the Bible more recently, and I’ll be honest — it’s way stranger than I was ever taught growing up.
People eating children. Dead boys being kissed. Talking donkeys. Fire falling from the sky. Somehow that sounds less weird than we pretend it is.
In this video, I talk about:
What shocked me while reading 2 Kings
Why applying modern morality to the ancient Near East doesn’t work
How Christian school leaves out a lot of the Bible
Why the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) is dense, strange, and its own world
How Jesus’ miracles reference earlier Jewish stories that rarely get explained
This isn’t a sermon. It’s not an argument. I’m just someone enjoying the Bible for what it is — a strange, layered, uncomfortable, fascinating book that shaped Western civilization.
You don’t have to believe in God to find it interesting.
You just have to be willing to sit with the weirdness.
Like, subscribe, and stick around if you enjoy thoughtful chaos.
0:00 – Reading the Bible because… why not
0:09 – Wait, did they just eat a child?
0:25 – Rereading to make sure I didn’t hallucinate
0:44 – Two chapters earlier: kissing a dead boy
1:04 – This is not what Christian school taught me
1:20 – The Bible is strange… but not only strange
1:36 – Talking donkeys and normal Tuesdays
1:46 – Moses, Noah, giants, and casual miracles
2:13 – Elijah calling fire from the sky
2:23 – What people think the Bible is
2:40 – Why I was genuinely surprised after 13 years of Christian school
2:59 – Disclaimer: no, Jewish people do not eat children
3:07 – Why modern morality doesn’t map onto ancient worlds
3:29 – Actually enjoying reading the Bible
3:37 – Being “too preachy” vs “not preachy enough”
3:48 – Can’t I just have a good time with Moses?
4:12 – Reading 2 Kings (chapters 5–7)
4:21 – The density of the Hebrew Bible
4:37 – Christianity emerging from this strange foundation
4:44 – Jesus feeding the 5,000 and Elisha
5:03 – The only miracle in all four Gospels
5:17 – The Bible as a hyperlinked text
5:29 – Tanakh as its own complete world
5:48 – Does the Hebrew Bible tell you how to pray?
6:16 – Seeing biblical ideas everywhere in Western culture
6:40 – Why non-religious people should still read the Bible
7:14 – Nobody agrees on the Bible (and that’s kind of the point)
7:34 – Thanks for watching
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