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Sacred Word, Broken Word: Biblical Authority and the Dark Side of Scripture is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Bible is a religious masterpiece, casting a profound vision for the healing of humanity through the power of divine love, grace, and forgiveness. But the Bible also contains “dark texts” that challenge our ethical imagination. How can one book speak of loving our enemies and also speak of slaughtering Canaanites? Why does a book that preaches the equality of all people—male and female, slave...

nor our propensity to misunderstand the Bible. Rather, one reason that the Bible is not a simple, straightforward “guide book” for life is that, as we shall see, the Bible actually stands within the fallen order that we seek to understand. That is, if I may foreshadow where I am heading in the discussion, the problem of Scripture is one permutation of the larger problem of evil. This part of our discussion can be summarized as follows: (1) the created order is the good creation of a good God; (2)
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