Disturbing Divine Behavior: Troubling Old Testament Images of God (Biblia.com)

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How should we understand biblical texts where God is depicted as acting irrationally, violently, or destructively? 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...

Another way Old Testament narratives differ significantly from modern historiography involves the creation and use of direct speech. Direct speech, or the words people say in Old Testament narratives, is a very important feature of these stories.[43] Naturally, many modern readers of the Bible assume that these words originated with the person who spoke them. Therefore, when they read Samuel’s warning about the cost of having a king (1 Samuel

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