Old Testament Foundatiosn with Philip Yancey

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Transcription: Many times, God had intervened directly in human history, but almost always for the sake of punishment—in Adam's day and Cain's and in the day of Noah and at Babel. After scanning these centuries of dismal failure, Genesis changes dramatically at chapter 12. It leaves the big picture of world history and settles on one lonely individual, not a great king or a wealthy landowner, but a childless nomad named Abraham. It's almost impossible to exaggerate the importance of Abraham in the Bible. To the Jews, he represents the father of a nation, but to all of us he represents far more. He became a s ...