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Holy warfare is the festering wound on the conscience of Bible-believing Christians. Of all the problems the Old Testament poses for our modern age, this is the one we want to avoid in mixed company. But do the so-called holy war texts of the Old Testament portray a divinely inspired genocide? Did Israel slaughter Canaanites at God’s command? Were they enforcing divine retribution on an unholy...

should do what Christ did.1 God does not tell us how to produce our own salvation; instead, he tells us how we can participate in the salvation that he has produced. Goodness works the same way. God’s actions are performed toward a good purpose; our expected actions are not intended to produce goodness but to allow us to participate in the goodness that God is producing. But then what exactly should we expect that participation to look like? This leads us to examine the question of what goodness
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