Is God a Vindictive Bully?

Reconciling Portrayals of God in the Old and New Testaments

De: Paul Copan

Narrado por: Jim Denison

Duración: 13 h y 6 m

Resumen del Editor

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 "primitive," violence-prone prophets were mistaken about God's commands and character. Both sets of critics dismiss this allegedly harsh, flawed, "textual" Old Testament God in favor of the kind, compassionate, "actual" 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 is helpful for anyone interested in understanding the flaws in these emerging claims that are creating a destructive gap between the Testaments.

©2022 Paul Copan (P)2022 eChristian

A beneficial and helpful resource.

Excellent information. Copan does a stellar job addressing difficult issues. I highly recommend this book.

The Audible version is not what I expected.

I’m only about 3 hours into the Audible version and I can’t stand it when they read out the specific verses where he got his info. It is constant and takes away from what he is saying. I’m not going to stop and look up every verse he quotes which are so many that my head would be spinning. If I was reading the book I could just skim them and move on, or ignore them if I didn’t really want to look them up. If I looked up every verse quoted this would be a 100 hour length of my time. I really want to return the Audible book but I think I waited too long before I started it. Because of all the quoting of verses I really can’t remember anything he has said so far. It is so distracting because it is constant. They should have had two version, one jwith ust the content and one with quoting all the scripture. I think I would have to buy the hard copy to get anything out of this book.