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Oct 21, 2016 · This article offers a survey of various ways contemporary scholars—particularly Christian scholars—have attempted to respond to the moral and theological challenges these troubling texts inevitably raise for modern readers. The contributions considered here are mostly from the past twenty years.
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Christians have wrestled with divine violence in the Old Testament at least since the 2nd century ce, when Marcion led a movement to reject the Old Testament and the Old Testament God. The movement was substantial enough that key church leaders such as Irenaeus and Tertullian worked to suppress it.
Jan 4, 2022 · Why did God condone such terrible violence in the Old Testament? Answer. The fact that God commanded the killing of entire nations in the Old Testament has been the subject of harsh criticism from opponents of Christianity for some time. That there was violence in the Old Testament is indisputable.
Divine violence has become a heated discussion point in recent years, and Christians have been writing many volumes on this topic to defend against the attacks of the “new atheists” (for example, see Paul Copan and Matthew Flannagan’s Did God Really Command Genocide?
May 16, 2024 · Modern critics, such as Dawkins, consider God in the Old Testament to be an unpleasant character; he goes as far as accusing God of “crimes against humanity.” This article delves into the challenging matter of divine violence in the Old Testament.
The Bible, in both Old Testament and New, speaks candidly about vio-lence—both human violence and divine violence. We must take the reports of God’s violence seriously, over against ourselves, while also exercising the appro-priate critique already begun by people within the Bible itself. Finally, we will see
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Feb 21, 2019 · Christians take several approaches to the violence of the Old Testament. 1. We can reject the depictions of God here as inconsistent with God as revealed in Jesus.