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Is God a Vindictive Bully? - Reconciling Portrayals of God in the Old and New Testaments

Is God a Vindictive Bully? - Reconciling Portrayals of God in the Old and New Testaments

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Paul Copan's book "Is God a Moral Monster?" addresses false teaching that confuses and misleads Christians, exploring the kindness, patience, and compassion of God in the Old Testament and how Jesus reveals divine kindness and severity. It includes a detailed Scripture index of difficult and controversial passages.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 320 pages
Publication date: 18 October 2022
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group


Critics outside the church often accuse the Old Testament God of genocide, racism, ethnic cleansing, and violence. However, a rising tide of critics within the church claims that Moses and other primitive, violence-prone prophets were mistaken about God's commands and character. Both sets of critics dismiss this allegedly harsh, flawed, textual Old Testament God in favor of the kind, compassionate, actual God revealed by Jesus. Are they right to do so?

Following his popular book "Is God a Moral Monster?", noted apologist Paul Copan confronts false, imbalanced teaching that is confusing and misleading many Christians. Copan takes on some of the most difficult Old Testament challenges and places them in their larger historical and theological contexts. He explores the kindness, patience, and compassion of God in the Old Testament and shows how Jesus in the New Testament reveals not only divine kindness but also divine severity. The book includes a detailed Scripture index of difficult and controversial passages and is helpful for anyone interested in understanding the flaws in these emerging claims that are creating a destructive gap between the Testaments.

Critics outside the church often accuse the Old Testament God of genocide, racism, ethnic cleansing, and violence. However, a rising tide of critics within the church claims that Moses and other primitive, violence-prone prophets were mistaken about God's commands and character. Both sets of critics dismiss this allegedly harsh, flawed, textual Old Testament God in favor of the kind, compassionate, actual God revealed by Jesus. Are they right to do so?

Following his popular book "Is God a Moral Monster?", noted apologist Paul Copan confronts false, imbalanced teaching that is confusing and misleading many Christians. Copan takes on some of the most difficult Old Testament challenges and places them in their larger historical and theological contexts. He explores the kindness, patience, and compassion of God in the Old Testament and shows how Jesus in the New Testament reveals not only divine kindness but also divine severity. The book includes a detailed Scripture index of difficult and controversial passages and is helpful for anyone interested in understanding the flaws in these emerging claims that are creating a destructive gap between the Testaments.

Critics outside the church often accuse the Old Testament God of genocide, racism, ethnic cleansing, and violence. However, a rising tide of critics within the church claims that Moses and other primitive, violence-prone prophets were mistaken about God's commands and character. Both sets of critics dismiss this allegedly harsh, flawed, textual Old Testament God in favor of the kind, compassionate, actual God revealed by Jesus. Are they right to do so?

Following his popular book "Is God a Moral Monster?", noted apologist Paul Copan confronts false, imbalanced teaching that is confusing and misleading many Christians. Copan takes on some of the most difficult Old Testament challenges and places them in their larger historical and theological contexts. He explores the kindness, patience, and compassion of God in the Old Testament and shows how Jesus in the New Testament reveals not only divine kindness but also divine severity. The book includes a detailed Scripture index of difficult and controversial passages and is helpful for anyone interested in understanding the flaws in these emerging claims that are creating a destructive gap between the Testaments.

Critics outside the church often accuse the Old Testament God of genocide, racism, ethnic cleansing, and violence. However, a rising tide of critics within the church claims that Moses and other primitive, violence-prone prophets were mistaken about God's commands and character. Both sets of critics dismiss this allegedly harsh, flawed, textual Old Testament God in favor of the kind, compassionate, actual God revealed by Jesus. Are they right to do so?

Following his popular book "Is God a Moral Monster?", noted apologist Paul Copan confronts false, imbalanced teaching that is confusing and misleading many Christians. Copan takes on some of the most difficult Old Testament challenges and places them in their larger historical and theological contexts. He explores the kindness, patience, and compassion of God in the Old Testament and shows how Jesus in the New Testament reveals not only divine kindness but also divine severity. The book includes a detailed Scripture index of difficult and controversial passages and is helpful for anyone interested in understanding the flaws in these emerging claims that are creating a destructive gap between the Testaments.

Critics outside the church often accuse the Old Testament God of genocide, racism, ethnic cleansing, and violence. However, a rising tide of critics within the church claims that Moses and other primitive, violence-prone prophets were mistaken about God's commands and character. Both sets of critics dismiss this allegedly harsh, flawed, textual Old Testament God in favor of the kind, compassionate, actual God revealed by Jesus. Are they right to do so?

Following his popular book "Is God a Moral Monster?", noted apologist Paul Copan confronts false, imbalanced teaching that is confusing and misleading many Christians. Copan takes on some of the most difficult Old Testament challenges and places them in their larger historical and theological contexts. He explores the kindness, patience, and compassion of God in the Old Testament and shows how Jesus in the New Testament reveals not only divine kindness but also divine severity. The book includes a detailed Scripture index of difficult and controversial passages and is helpful for anyone interested in understanding the flaws in these emerging claims that are creating a destructive gap between the Testaments.

Critics outside the church often accuse the Old Testament God of genocide, racism, ethnic cleansing, and violence. However, a rising tide of critics within the church claims that Moses and other primitive, violence-prone prophets were mistaken about God's commands and character. Both sets of critics dismiss this allegedly harsh, flawed, textual Old Testament God in favor of the kind, compassionate, actual God revealed by Jesus. Are they right to do so?

Following his popular book "Is God a Moral Monster?", noted apologist Paul Copan confronts false, imbalanced teaching that is confusing and misleading many Christians. Copan takes on some of the most difficult Old Testament challenges and places them in their larger historical and theological contexts. He explores the kindness, patience, and compassion of God in the Old Testament and shows how Jesus in the New Testament reveals not only divine kindness but also divine severity. The book includes a detailed Scripture index of difficult and controversial passages and is helpful for anyone interested in understanding the flaws in these emerging claims that are creating a destructive gap between the Testaments.

Weight: 348g
Dimension: 152 x 229 x 24 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781540964557

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