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4 Shocking Reasons the Bible is Unique (Reason 4)
We are looking at 4 reasons the Bible is unique. Here is a brief summary of where we have been so far: The Bible is unique because it reveals mimetic rivalry and the scapegoat mechanism. The Bible is...
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Jesus as the Hermeneutical Trump Card in Scripture
When people seek to defend the idea that God is violent “because the Bible says so,” what they are really doing is allowing the violent portrayals of God in the Bible to override and trump the loving...
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Are Greg Boyd and I arguing the same thing?
A couple weeks ago, I announced that I was giving up on my proposal (…again). Then Chuck McKnight alerted me to this video interview of Greg Boyd by Nate Cunningham. The video should start at the 13:40...
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Redoing My Theology
I realized the other day why I am having such a struggle writing this book on the violence of God in the Old Testament. The reason is because the process of grappling with this issue is requiring me to...
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Drunk with Blood: God’s Killings in the Bible
As I continue to write on how to understand the violence of God in the Old Testament, I am always shocked whenever I run into a Christian who thinks the Bible isn’t violent. I want to ask them if they...
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Did God Drown the Egyptian Army?
The following post contains a proposal about how to understand the violence of God in drowning the Egyptian army. I am publishing it for your input and feedback. I think that maybe what I have...
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Did God Perform the First Sacrifice in Genesis 3:21?
Many believe that the first sacrifice was carried out by God Himself in Genesis 3:21 which says that God made tunics of skin for Adam and Eve so that they could be clothed. Did God Sacrifice an Animal...
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Why Did Cain Offer a Sacrifice to God in Genesis 4?
Though some believe the first sacrifice in the Bible is found in Genesis 3:21, others say the first sacrifice in Scripture is one chapter later in Genesis 4 when Cain brings an offering of fruit and...
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Why Did God Reject Cain’s Sacrifice?
Yesterday we discussed why Cain attempted to make an offering to God in the first place. God had not yet commanded sacrifices and offerings, so why did Cain give one to God? In today’s post, we look at...
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Does Jesus Drown Babies?
Remember Andrea Yates? She is the mother who, in 2001, drowned her five children in a bathtub. She said that the devil had influenced her children, and so they needed to die. A few years later, another...
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