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The Bloody Bible
The Bible is full of bloody and gruesome portrayals, many of which are carried out at what appears to be the direct command of God. One atheistic author has written an entire book about these many...
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The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah
The events surrounding the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah are well known. The Plan to Destroy Sodom and Gomorrah In Genesis 18:16-21, God informs Abraham that a great outcry against the cities of...
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Seeing Jesus in Sodom
Yesterday, we briefly looked at an alternative way of reading the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah in Genesis 19 which showed that God did not destroy these cities, but worked to rescue and redeem...
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Hey Blog Readers… I LOVE YOU!
I want to say several things in this post. Here they are in summary: I am giving up on the violence of God project I am going to finish the violence of God project Why? Because I love you all! So let...
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Understanding the Ten Plagues
The ten plagues were the means by which the people of Israel gained freedom from slavery in Egypt. While some scholars argue that the first nine plagues were non-violent, it is impossible to say that...
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Who Killed the Firstborn Sons of Egypt?
Yesterday I introduced the idea that the ten plagues were primarily a way for God to reveal His power over and against the impotence of the Egyptian deities. In this post, we want to consider the tenth...
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The Death of Jesus in the Tenth Plague
If you haven’t read the previous two posts on the tenth plague, you might want to go do that now. It will help this post make more sense. Understanding the Ten Plagues Who Killed the Firstborn Sons of...
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Jesus as the Hermeneutical Trump Card in Scripture
When people seek to defend the idea that God is violent “because the Bible says so,” what they are really doing is allowing the violent portrayals of God in the Bible to override and trump the loving...
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Redoing My Theology
I realized the other day why I am having such a struggle writing this book on the violence of God in the Old Testament. The reason is because the process of grappling with this issue is requiring me to...
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Did God Drown the Egyptian Army?
The following post contains a proposal about how to understand the violence of God in drowning the Egyptian army. I am publishing it for your input and feedback. I think that maybe what I have...
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