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

by Paul Copan

Book Overview

Critics outside the church often accuse the Old Testament God of genocide, racism, ethnic cleansing, and violence. But a rising tide of critics within the church claim 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1540964558
• ISBN13: 9781540964557
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Baker Academic
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"