Is the command to "utterly destroy" morally unjustifiable? Is it literal? Are the issues more complex and nuanced than we realize? In the tradition of his popular Is God a Moral Monster? Together they help the Christian and nonbeliever alike understand the biblical, theological, philosophical, and ethical implications of Old Testament warfare passages.
Pastors, youth pastors, campus ministers, apologetics readers, and laypeople will find that this book both enlightens and equips them for serious discussion of troubling spiritual questions. Score: 4. Many think of God as wrathful and angry, smiting people right and left for no apparent reason.
The Old Testament in particular seems at times to portray God as capricious and malevolent, wiping out armies and nations, punishing enemies with extreme prejudice. But wait. The story is more complicated than that. Alongside troubling passages of God's punishment and judgment are pictures of God's love, forgiveness, goodness and slowness to anger. How do we make sense of the seeming contradiction? Can God be trusted or not? David Lamb unpacks the complexity of the Old Testament to explore the character of God.
He provides historical and cultural background to shed light on problematic passages and to bring underlying themes to the fore. Without minimizing the sometimes harsh realities of the biblical record, Lamb assembles an overall portrait that gives coherence to our understanding of God in both the Old and New Testaments.
Score: 5. Addressing contemporary challenges to the church, nineteen respected modern Christian apologists offer thoughtful new essays on culture, the historical Jesus, other religions, and more. Writing from a distinctively Christian perspective, McDowell and Morrow lay out the facts so that the emerging generation can make up their own mind after considering all the evidence.
Paul Copan has been answering questions like these for many years. In When God Goes to Starbucks, he offers readers solid and caring Christian responses to these and many other concerns that are being discussed in Starbucks, shopping malls, youth groups, and schools. Each chapter provides succinct answers and points for countering the cultural questions believers are faced with today.
With a close and erudite reading of the major religious texts, he documents the ways in which religion is a man-made wish, a cause of dangerous sexual repression, and a distortion of our origins in the cosmos. Award-winning author Dr. Frank Turek I Don't Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist will show you how atheists steal reason, evidence, science, and other arguments from God in trying to make their case for atheism.
If that sounds contradictory, it's because it is! Atheists can't make their case without appealing to realities only theism can explain. In an engaging and memorable way, Stealing from God exposes these intellectual crimes atheists are committing and then provides four powerful reasons for why Christianity is true. Score: 1. If we distance ourselves from disturbing portrayals of God, how should we understand the authority of Scripture?
How does the often wrathful God portrayed in the Old Testament relate to the God of love proclaimed in the New Testament? Is that contrast even accurate? Disturbing Divine Behavior addresses these perennially vexing questions for the student of the Bible. Eric A. Seibert calls for an engaged and discerning reading of the Old Testament that distinguishes the particular literary and theological goals achieved through narrative characterizations of God from the rich understanding of the divine to which the Old Testament as a whole points.
Providing illuminating reflections on theological reading as well, this book will be a welcome resource for any readers who puzzle over disturbing representations of God in the Bible. Dembski, Darrell L.
Bock, etc. Within weeks it became the most hotly debated topic, with Dawkins himself branded as either saint or sinner for presenting his hard-hitting, impassioned rebuttal of religion of all types. His argument could hardly be more topical. While Europe is becoming increasingly secularized, the rise of religious fundamentalism, whether in the Middle East or Middle America, is dramatically and dangerously dividing opinion around the world. In America, and elsewhere, a vigorous dispute between 'intelligent design' and Darwinism is seriously undermining and restricting the teaching of science.
In many countries religious dogma from medieval times still serves to abuse basic human rights such as women's and gay rights. Download ». In this book you will discover:-Why atheists like Richard Dawkins, Christophe Hitchens and Sam Harris cannot be ignored by the Christian community-Why Church membership is on the decline worldwide-Why there is so much controversy about the Pastors, youth pastors, campus ministers, apologetics readers, and laypeople will find that this book both enlightens and equips them for serious discussion of troubling spiritual questions.
What in Hell Conflicts with God presents the authoritative information that God has promulgated to His people and the various methods He used to communicate.
Apologetics authority Paul Copan tackles popular sayings that often leave Christians speechless, such as "All religions lead to God," "Who are you to judge others? Similar to his well-received "True for You, but Not for Me," this book by Paul Copan will help you defend your faith, even when you're confronted with the toughest questions.
The culture, literature, religions, geography, etc. Addresses the biblical, philosophical, and scientific bases for the doctrine of creation out of nothing, while countering contemporary trends that are assailing this doctrine. This viewpoint is even making inroads into the church. How are Christians to respond to such accusations? And how are we to reconcile the seemingly disconnected natures of God portrayed in the two testaments?
In this timely and readable book, apologist Paul Copan takes on some of the most vexing accusations of our time, including: God is arrogant and jealous God punishes people too harshly God is guilty of ethnic cleansing God oppresses women God endorses slavery Christianity causes violence and more Copan not only answers God's critics, he also shows how to read both the Old and New Testaments faithfully, seeing an unchanging, righteous, and loving God in both.
One source estimates that there could be as many as 25 million deaths attributed to God in the Bible. How can a God of love be responsible for so much bloodshed? Why is it that the chosen people of a God of love can be condemned for genocide, wars of conquest, plunder, slavery, religious intolerance, and bigotry? Is God a Moral Monster? Secrets Your Church Won't Tell You addresses these and other issues related to the God of the Bible and the people who claim to be his chosen ones.
In this book you will discover:-Why atheists like Richard Dawkins, Christophe Hitchens and Sam Harris cannot be ignored by the Christian community-Why Church membership is on the decline worldwide-Why there is so much controversy about the authenticity of the various versions of the Bible-Why the free will argument weakens the position of apologists who believe that God is just and loving-Why Christians need to rethink the doctrine of eternal torment in hell.
Leonard R Phillips is no atheist. He believes in a supreme being but he does not close his eyes to the compelling evidence presented so eloquently by the new atheists today. Yahweh as presented in the Old Testament could easily be classified as the most unpleasant character in literature. The author argues that Christian apologists, in their efforts to defuse the argument that God is not Great, must strike a balance between arguments about the existence of God and arguments about the goodness of God.
God is under fire in the modern world. The end of faith is being predicted as more people buy into the God delusion argument. Christians cannot win the God debate simply by presenting reasonable arguments for his existence.
Of greater importance is the presentation of arguments to offset the negative caricature of God presented in the Old Testament and by the new atheists. Even Christians have a hard time stomaching such a thought, and many avoid reading those difficult Old Testament passages that make us squeamish.
Instead, we quickly jump to the enemy-loving, forgiving Jesus of the New Testament.
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