This text seems to contradict God’s holy and good character. How can the Bible contain such terrible judgements? It seems as if people are praised for killing children in a horrible way: by smashing them against the rocks. How dreadful, the illustrated event as well as the apparent divine approval for such bestial behaviour. Continue reading
It is clear that Jim is a good man and that he cannot stand that God is not always good, isn’t it? It sounds okay, but unfortunately Jim is a little bit naïve. He doesn’t take into account that many transgressions of the Israelites had to do with the other religions of the neighboring people. In fact the old religions of the Canaanites came up again and again in Israel. Continue reading