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...

Now, in each of these examples of God behaving very unpleasantly indeed, I have simply spelled out what the Old Testament itself says. I have not read into the stories what is not there. I have also hinted that in order to make them acceptable to our modern ways of thinking about God, we have to do quite a bit of doctoring. —J. C. L. Gibson[1] In the first few chapters, we considered various dimensions of the problem of disturbing divine behavior

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