Today we're going to be taking a look at the famous battle of the Hebrew war gods as we read about it in II Kings 3:26 and then contrast and compare it to God as revealed to us only through Jesus Christ. Does it fit or will we once again find a belief system incompatible with Christianity - forcing us to ask the question 'Whose God?'

Notes:

The Very First Bible:

https://www.theveryfirstbible.org

Pre-Nice Christianity:

https://pre-nicene.org

FBN podcast episodes: 

https://www.firstbiblenetwork.com/PrenicenePerspective.html

FBN Radio:

https://www.firstbiblenetwork.com/FBNRadio.html

Spoilers:

https://www.compellingtruth.org/Moabites.html

http://web.mit.edu/jywang/www/cef/Bible/NIV/NIV_Bible/2KGS+3.html

https://apologeticspress.org/ruth-david-and-a-moabite-mandate-5633/

https://classroom.synonym.com/religious-offerings-and-sacrifices-to-the-greek-gods-12086670.html

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-moabites

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Is human sacrifice compatible with the teachings of Christ? Apparently it is if you believe what's written in the Old Testament is the 'word of God.' In today's episode we deconstruct Judges 11:30-39 and find out exactly 'Whose God? they're talking about.

Judges 11

https://biblia.com/bible/esv/judges/11

Idomeneus: The Greek General Who Sacrificed His Son as an Offering

https://ancient-literature.com/idomeneus

Yahweh

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahweh

The Very First Bible

https://www.theveryfirstbible.org

First Bible Network

https://www.firstbiblenetwork.com/

Universal link for all FBN podcasts

http://pod1.co/fbn

Marcionite Church

https://www.marcionitechurch.org

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For our first edition of the 'Whose God?' series we selected Genesis 32: 22-32 - you may know it as the story of the Hebew character Jacob wrestling with his 'god' - and winning the match. But the true identity of his wrestling opponent and the religion it symbolizes may surprise you.

Antaeus:

https://www.greekmythology.com/Myths/Gigantes/Antaeus/antaeus.html

Times of Israel:

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/did-jacob-wrestle-god-an-angel-of-god-satan-or-one-of-his-angels/

Genesis 32:22-32

The Very First Bible:

https://www.theveryfirstbible.org

FBN Radio:

https://www.firstbiblenetwork.com/FBNRadio.html

Genesis is an example of a work in the "antiquities" genre, as the Romans knew it, a popular genre telling of the appearance of humans and the ancestors and heroes, with elaborate genealogies and chronologies fleshed out with stories and anecdotes.[15] The most notable examples are found in the work of Greek historians of the 6th century BC: their intention was to connect notable families of their own day to a distant and heroic past, and in doing so they did not distinguish between myth, legend, and facts.[16] Professor Jean-Louis Ska of the Pontifical Biblical Institute calls the basic rule of the antiquarian historian the "law of conservation": everything old is valuable, nothing is eliminated.[17] This antiquity was needed to prove the worth of Israel's traditions to the nations (the neighbours of the Jews in the early Persian province of Judea), and to reconcile and unite the various factions within Israel itself.[17]

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