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Confronting Old Testament Controversies: Pressing Questions about Evolution, Sexuality, History, and Violence is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Old Testament is rife with controversial passages and events that raise questions about its continued significance for today. Often our solutions have tended toward the extremes—ignore problem passages and pretend they don’t matter or obsess over them and treat them as though they are the only thing that matters. Now Old Testament scholar Tremper Longman confronts pressing questions of...

as spirit and God as embodied, or God as limited in knowledge and God as omniscient). When it comes to divine violence, my contention is that there is no such conflict. The biblical picture is coherent as we move from Genesis to Revelation and follow God’s fight against evil, human and spiritual, that starts at the beginning of Genesis and ends only with Jesus’s second coming. But this, of course, is where I differ the most from Boyd. He believes that there is such a conflict between the God of the
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