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Quick Thought on Canaanite Genocide and the Brutalizing Effects of Violence
You can’t hire a guy to work 9-5 in a slaughterhouse and not expect that to affect how he interacts […]
biblical ethics, biblical violence, canaanite genocide, Canaanites, ethicsCan God Command Anything At All?
Yesterday, I tweeted some criticisms of Christians who crucify their moral intuitions on the altar of their particular readings of […]
biblical violence, ethics, hermeneuticsIf God commanded you to sacrifice your child, would you? Here’s my response
If God commanded you to sacrifice your child, would you? The answer is simple: God wouldn’t command that. And if […]
biblical ethics, biblical violence, divine command ethics, ethicsInspired Imperfection: A Review
Gregory A. Boyd. Inspired Imperfection: How the Bible’s Problems Enhance Its Authority (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2020). The postscript to Gregory Boyd’s new […]
biblical violence, Greg Boyd, hermeneutics, reviewDon’t Sacrifice Your Conscience to Defend Your Reading of the Bible
I’ve been talking about biblical violence on Twitter over the last day. So now I’m back to my blog and […]
biblical ethics, biblical violence, ethics, moral intuition, moral perceptionChristians, you are allowed to wrestle with the problem of biblical violence
Imagine for a moment that you are in conversation with a person from another religion and you discover that their […]
biblical violence, hermeneuticsThe Imprecatory Pretzel: Why it doesn’t work to use the Psalms to curse your enemies
Many Christians think that the imprecatory psalms provide models for how to curse one’s enemies. The hermeneutical assumption seems to […]
biblical inspiration, biblical violence, ethics, hermeneutics, imprecatory psalmsFour Pitfalls for Apologists Defending Biblical Violence
Over the last decade or so, Christian apologists have directed significant effort in defending morally problematic biblical violence including texts […]
apologetics, biblical violence, moral epistemology, moral skepticismA street apologist puts me in my place
Here is a video by a self-described street apologist who critiques my critique of William Lane Craig on biblical atrocities. […]
biblical atrocity, biblical violence, critique, ethics, hermeneutics, Randal Rauser, street epistemology, theology, William Lane Craig