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Did God really command Genocide?

Paul Copan and Matthew Flannagan Don’t Want to Debate Me. But if They Did, I’d Ask Them This

July 31, 2021 by Randal

Paul Copan and Matthew Flannagan offer extensive critiques of my views in their book Did God Really Command Genocide? In turn, I devoted most of a chapter on what I called “The Just War Interpreters” to an extensive critique of their ‘kinder, gentler’ interpretation of the Canaanite genocide by demonstrating that it collapses into ethnic cleansing […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: biblical violence, Did God really command Genocide?, Jesus Loves Canaanites, Matthew Flannagan, Paul Copan

Did God Really Command Genocide? A Review (Part 3)

February 10, 2015 by Randal

Paul Copan and Matthew Flannagan. Did God Really Command Genocide? Coming to Terms with the Justice of God. Baker, 2014, 351 pp. Welcome to the third (and final) installment in my review of Paul Copan and Matthew Flannagan’s book Did God Really Command Genocide? For part 2 click here. The second installment of this review ended […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: apologetics, biblical ethics, biblical violence, Did God really command Genocide?, divine command ethics, ethics, genocide, Matthew Flannagan, Paul Copan, review

58. Matthew Flannagan on God and Genocide

January 13, 2015 by Randal

In his bestselling 2006 book The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins throws down the gauntlet against the Judeo-Christian God. While much of Dawkins’ book is devilishly quotable polemic, he arguably reaches his rhetorical apex with this oft-quoted passage: “The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud […]

Filed Under: Podcast-The Tentative Apologist, The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Bible, biblical ethics, biblical violence, Did God really command Genocide?, divine command, ethics, genocide, interview, Matthew Flannagan

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