Two Faces, One God: The Angry Judge of the KJV vs. the Grieving Father of Ethiopia

Cause Before Symptom - With Your Host James Carner

This broadcast challenges one of the deepest assumptions in modern Western Christianity: that God is inherently angry, that He demands blood to be appeased, and that His justice always outweighs His mercy. Through a careful and scripture-rich comparison between the King James Bible and the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church canon, The Angry God That Never Was reveals a striking truth—the God preserved in the Ethiopian scriptures is not ruled by wrath, but by sorrow, compassion, and divine patience.

Drawing from books long omitted from the Western canon—such as Jubilees, 1–3 Meqabyan, Enoch, and Baruch—we discover a portrait of God as a Father who grieves over sin rather than lashes out. We see Him delaying judgment, extending mercy, and clothing the sinner with grace before exile. This show explores how translation, empire, and theological bias have distorted the gospel message in the West, creating a fear-based religion that obscures the relational heartbeat of the Father.

From Eden to Enoch, from Adam’s fall to Christ’s cross, this show offers a powerful reframing: We were not saved fromGod’s wrath by Jesus, but to God’s mercy through Him. The God of Ethiopia has never changed. He was never angry first. He has always been love.