At Westminster Reads, my church’s Bible reading blog, we are reading the book of Joshua. For many Christians the violence in the book of Joshua (as well as other parts of the Bible) is troubling. After the walls of Jericho fall we read, “Then they devoted to destruction by the edge of the sword all […]
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Thoughts on Old Testament Violence
Cain kills Abel and the violence begins. There is, of course, more than violence in the Old Testament. Never the less, there’s no two ways about it, there’s a lot of violence in the Old Testament. You may have heard people contrast the violent, vengeful god of the Old Testament with the loving God of […]
