Hey everybody. This is Daryl Cooper. This is the Martyr Made podcast, and this is a special episode to

celebrate Easter here in 2025. Now, some of you probably heard the Easter episode I did a couple

years ago. If you haven't, I'll link it in the show notes or under whatever post

happened to bring you here. But today I want to talk about the book of Job. Those of you who are

subscribers to the Martyr-made substack will be familiar with a lot of the themes in material in this episode.

And I'd like to give a quick message to my Bible-believing listeners.

I am going to be exploring different ways of thinking about the book of Job and about God

and about the story told in the Gospels.

And I understand that makes some people reflexively uncomfortable. I would just ask you to approach this episode with a generous spirit. You know,

I'm going to talk about things that I've been working over and struggling with in my mind for

years, and I haven't

come close to figuring them out. I'm not trying to be your pastor. I'm not claiming to be an authority

with some previously undisclosed truth about the Bible. I myself don't have much certainty about any of the things I'm about to talk about.

I'm trying to understand things that have always been very hard for me to wrap my head around,

and I'm just going to share some of that with you here.

So even if the theology is unorthodox, the last thing I'm trying to do is lead anyone astray or to ask anyone to accept my answers to these questions.

Since even my answers might very well be different by next Easter.

So here we go.

I'm content to die for my beliefs.

So cut off my head and make me a martyr.

The people will always remember it.

No.

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