God Behaving Badly: Is the God of the Old Testament Angry, Sexist and Racist?

Instead of following Jesus’ example of praising women who want to serve, we are often more like the sexist disciples, rebuking women who take initiative.

God is predictably flexible, constantly changeable and immutably mutable, at least in regard to showing mercy toward repentant sinners.

Old Testament feasts weren’t designed to encourage gluttony but simply to remind Israel that God’s generosity was to be celebrated frequently.

Men need to bring up the subject more often, and not because it is politically correct, but because it is biblically correct.

Yahweh is both stubborn and flexible: stubbornly inflexible about his commitment to bless his people, which is good news, and graciously flexible about showing mercy to repentant sinners, which is great news.

both testaments teach that strict obedience to the law in general or to any specific law cannot make us righteous in God’s eyes; only faith in God does that (Gen 15:6; Gal 3:6).

When God seems distant in the midst of crises and pain, we can pray the psalms of lament. As we follow the pattern of the lament—from doubts and despair to prayer and petition—we eventually arrive at a place of hope, trust and praise.

Sex and food were two great gifts God gave the humans.

Fear of tough texts won’t help. If we avoid them, they won’t go away. The only way to understand them is to read, study, discuss and teach them.