Slides to accompany Bristol Vineyard podcast dated 16th September 2018. Podcast here: https://www.bristolvineyard.com/media-resources/podcasts-archive/

1. Isaiah 40-55

2. “The God of the Old Testament is arguably the
most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous
and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving
control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic
cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist,
infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential,
megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously
malevolent bully.”
Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

3. Do you not know?
Have you not heard?
The Lord is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He will not grow tired or weary,
and his understanding no one can fathom.
Isaiah 40: 28

4. 1000 BC
King
David
Assyrian
Threat
740-700 BC

6. 1000 BC
King
David
Assyrian
Threat
740-700 BC
Isaiah 1-39

8. 1000 BC
King
David
Assyrian
Threat
740-700 BC
Isaiah 1-39
Exile in
Babylon
587-539 BC
Isaiah 40-55

9. God of the Bible
• Loving Father
• Important role for his children
• Forms them into people who can fufill
that role