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


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Christianity Today 2023 Award of Merit (Apologetics amp; Evangelism) 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 quot;primitive,quot; violence-prone prophets were mistaken about God's commands and character. Both sets of critics dismiss this allegedly harsh, flawed, quot;textualquot; Old Testament God in favor of the kind, compassionate, quot;actualquot; 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.

Table of Contents:
Contents Part 1: The Great Divorce: How Wide the Divide between the Old and New Testaments? 1. The Old Testament God: Critics from Without and from Within 2. Is the God of the Old Testament the Same as the God of the New? (1): Marcion versus Moses 3. Is the God of the Old Testament the Same as the God of the New? (2): Moses versus Jesus? 4. Is the God of the Old Testament the Same as the God of the New? (3): Moses versus Jesus? (Continued) Part 2: Lex Rex (the Law, the King): What Makes the Law of Moses So Special? 5. quot;From Heaven or from Human Origin?quot; Is the Mosaic Law Just Another Ancient Law Code? 6. Multiple Sources and Late Dates? Does the Mosaic Law Have Multiple Authors? Was Fighting the Canaanites a Fiction from the Sixth Century BC? 7. Differences between the Law of Moses and Ancient Near Eastern Laws (1): The Biblical Vision and Worldview 8. Differences between the Law of Moses and Ancient Near Eastern Laws (2): Human Dignity, Relationship, and Equality 9. Differences between the Law of Moses and Ancient Near Eastern Laws (3): Poverty and Wealth Part 3: Crime and Punishment: Violations and Penalties in Old Testament Law 10. A Bit of Ancient Near Eastern Context 11. Israel's Punishments as Nonliteral in the Pentateuch 12. Israel's Punishments as Nonliteral in Old Testament History Part 4: For Whom the Bell Tolls: Harsh Texts and Difficult Old Testament Questions 13. How Was David quot;a Man after God's Own Heartquot;? 14. Why Does God Harden People's Hearts? 15. Divine Smitings (1): Noah's Flood, Egypt's Firstborn, Uzzah's Death 16. Divine Smitings (2): Elisha and the Bears, and Punishing Children to the Third and Fourth Generations 17. quot;Bashing Babies against the Rockquot;? Imprecatory Psalms in the Old Testament 18. quot;Let His Homestead Be Made Desolatequot;: Imprecatory Psalms in the New Testament 19. Loving Jacob, Hating Esau? Putting Divine and Human Hatred in Perspective Part 5: Of Human Bondage: Women and Servants in Israelite Society 20. Is the Old Testament Really Misogynistic and Patriarchal? 21. Espousing Multiple Wives? Revisiting the Matter of Polygamy 22. Other Troubling Texts about Women: The Nameless Concubine, the Question of War Rape 23. quot;Servantsquot; in Israel: Persons or Property? 24. The quot;Acquisitionquot; of quot;Foreign Slavesquot; (1): A Deeper Dive into Leviticus 25 000 25. The quot;Acquisitionquot; of quot;Foreign Slavesquot; (2): Two Objections and the Runaway Option Part 6: War and Peace: Warfare and Violence in the Old Testament (and the New) 26. Jesus Loves Canaanites–and Israelites Too: quot;Jesus 101quot; and the Old Testament's quot;Dark Textsquot; 27. quot;We Left No Survivorsquot;: Exaggeration Rhetoric in Israel's War Texts 28. Revisiting the Translation of Herem: quot;Utter Destruction,quot; quot;Consecration,quot; quot;Identity Removal,quot; quot;Removal from Ordinary Usequot;? 29. Deuteronomy's Intensified Rhetoric and the Use of Haram 30. Did the Israelites quot;Cruelly Invadequot; the Land of Canaan? 31. The quot;Actualquot; God in Old Testament Warfare Part 7: The Heart of the Matter: The Summing Up of All Things in Christ 32. quot;God Is Christlike, and in Him There Is No Un-Christlikeness at Allquot;: Our Critics from Within 33. Our Critics from Without (1): Two Important Questions 34. Our Critics from Without (2): Five Big Steps Questions for Small Groups Indexes

About the Author :
Paul Copan (PhD, Marquette University), a Christian theologian, analytic philosopher, and apologist, is the Pledger Family Chair of Philosophy and Ethics at Palm Beach Atlantic University in West Palm Beach, Florida. For 6 years, he served as president of the Evangelical Philosophical Society. He was a visiting scholar at Oxford University in 2017. Copan is the author or editor of more than 40 books, including Is God a Moral Monster?; True for You, But Not for Me; That's Just Your Interpretation; When God Goes to Starbucks; and A Little Book for New Philosophers.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781540964557
  • Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
  • Publisher Imprint: Baker Academic, Div of Baker Publishing Group
  • Height: 237 mm
  • No of Pages: 320
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 22 mm
  • Width: 153 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1540964558
  • Publisher Date: 20 Dec 2022
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 404 gr


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