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@RL_Dane @Aslanmane @secularfaith Yep. If God has an enemy, it's sin. Sin degrades us and his creation. It isn't a balanced fight, though. Jesus is completely victorious.

Brian Zahnd uses the word "progressive" once in that video, and he means something different from progressivism. He means that as you follow the biblical stories, God becomes better known as you go along. The apostles, post-resurrection, knew God more accurately than when Jesus first called them. The prophets knew God more truly than the Israelites in the wilderness. Moses knew God better than Jacob did.

This really helps me when I read the old testament, since I'm ok with saying Abraham thought God wanted him to kill Isaac, when in fact God does not really want human sacrifice. Abraham didn't fully know God, and how could he? God is fully revealed in Jesus and Abraham did not have that benefit. Of course the ancients expected God to be overwhelmingly violent and to expect them to be as well. They had not seen God refusing to call down legions of angels, and absorbing all the abuse we chose to exact upon him. They figured that's what their god was like because that's what all the gods are like. But he's not.