Is God a vindictive bully : Reconciling portrayals of God in the Old and New Testaments

Critics outside the church often accuse the Old Testament God of genocide, racism, ethnic cleansing, and violence. But a rising tide of critics within the church claim that Moses and other "primitive," violence-prone prophets were mistaken about God's commands and character. Both sets of critics... Full description

Main Author:	Copan, Paul.
Published:	Grand Rapids, Michigan : Baker Academic, 2022
Subjects:	BIBLE.N.T. - RELATION TO O.T. GOD - BIBLICAL TEACHING.
Online Access:	Full text - Book opens in ProQuest Ebook Central
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500			\|a Includes Index and Bibliographical References
520			\|a Critics outside the church often accuse the Old Testament God of genocide, racism, ethnic cleansing, and violence. But a rising tide of critics within the church claim that Moses and other "primitive," violence-prone prophets were mistaken about God's commands and character. Both sets of critics dismiss this allegedly harsh, flawed, "textual" Old Testament God in favor of the kind, compassionate, "actual" God revealed by Jesus. Are they right to do so? Following his popular book Is God a Moral Monster?, noted apologist Paul Copan confronts false, imbalanced teaching that is confusing and misleading many Christians. Copan takes on some of the most difficult Old Testament challenges and places them in their larger historical and theological contexts. He explores the kindness, patience, and compassion of God in the Old Testament and shows how Jesus in the New Testament reveals not only divine kindness but also divine severity. The book includes a detailed Scripture index of difficult and controversial passages and is helpful for anyone interested in understanding the flaws in these emerging claims that are creating a destructive gap between the Testaments
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Is God a vindictive bully : Reconciling portrayals of God in the Old and New Testaments

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