Quick Thought on Canaanite Genocide and the Brutalizing Effects of Violence

May 14, 2020 / Randal / The Tentative Apologist / No Comments

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, ethics

The Lost World of the Israelite Conquest: A Review

June 11, 2018 / Randal / The Tentative Apologist / No Comments

John H. Walton and J. Harvey Walton. The Lost World of the Israelite Conquest. InterVarsity Press, 2017. Some folks will likely […]

biblical studies, biblical violence, biblical warfare, canaanite genocide

Apologetics and the cult of concision or, not every conversation can be had in under four minutes

March 23, 2015 / Randal / The Tentative Apologist / 75 Comments

The other day I was at the Wintery Knight blog when the following article title caught my eye: “What if […]

apologetics, biblical violence, canaanite genocide, indoctrination, Noam Chomsky

Could God again command the killing of infants and children for a greater good? A critique of William Lane Craig

March 11, 2013 / Randal / The Tentative Apologist / 54 Comments

This is my eleventh installment of my ongoing critique of William Lane Craig’s podcast “Richard Dawkins and Driving Out the […]

canaanite genocide, ethics, natural law, Old Testament, William Lane Craig

The God I really don’t understand

August 31, 2011 / Randal / The Tentative Apologist / 25 Comments

I am almost at an end (for the time being) of recycling my old classic posts from my Christian Post […]

accommodation, canaanite genocide, Christopher Wright, herem