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The Problem of War in the Old Testament is unavailable, but you can change that!

The predominance of war in the Old Testament troubles many Christians. However, it is an issue that must be faced, says Peter Craigie, because it has serious ramifications for contemporary Christian attitudes about war. Craigie categorizes the problems into two kinds—personal and external. The personal problems arise from the Christian’s attempt to grapple with the emphasis on war in a book...

writings, is not an enclosed system, a sequence of causes and effects, nor even something determined solely by human will and action.16 Though human will and action are fundamental, history moves and develops, in some sense, within the providence of God. Again, history is not limited to past events; rather, the participation of God which can be perceived in past events, is involved also in the present moment of history, and it points towards a culmination lying still in the future. That point of
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