Cover of Did God Really Command Genocide?

Book 2014

Did God Really Command Genocide?

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Publisher
Baker Books, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Published
2014
  • Theodicy
  • Righteousness
  • Love
  • Violence in the Bible
  • Christianity
  • Ethnicity in the Bible
  • Genocide
  • Biblical teaching

This book reconciles a violent Old Testament God with a loving Jesus. Would a good, kind, and loving deity ever command the wholesale slaughter of nations? We often avoid reading difficult Old Testament passages that make us squeamish and quickly jump to the enemy-loving, forgiving Jesus of the New Testament. And yet, the question remains. In the tradition of his popular Is God a Moral Monster?, Paul Copan teams up with Matthew Flannagan to tackle some of the most confusing and uncomfortable passages of Scripture. Together they help the Christian and nonbeliever alike understand the biblical, theological, philosophical, and ethical implications of Old Testament warfare passages. - Publisher.