Show Them No Mercy
Is God a Vindictive Bully?: Reconciling Portrayals of God in the Old and New Testaments
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When God did order violence and death, it was always with extreme patience and plenty of warning to give people the opportunity to repent and turn to him. It was never genocide or ethnic cleansing.
Dan Kimball • How (Not) to Read the Bible: Making Sense of the Anti-women, Anti-science, Pro-violence, Pro-slavery and Other Crazy-Sounding Parts of Scripture
Rather, the rigorous application of the law in the way we have observed, as a defence against Gentiles and hence as a reinforcement of national boundaries and aspirations, had become, in Jesus’ view, a symptom of the problem rather than part of the solution. The kingdom of the one true god was at last coming into being, and it would be characterize
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