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God Takes on Our Violence
If it is on the cross that Jesus most fully reveals God, and it is on the cross that Jesus became sin for the world, then this means that in the Old Testament, God also was becoming sin for the world....
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God Asks for Our Forgiveness
We often think that it is only we who must go to God for forgiveness, but there is a sense in which God asks us to forgive Him. No, it is not that God has sinned, but that He knows how much pain and...
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52 God Memes that will either make you laugh or angry (depending on your...
As I write about the violence of God in the Bible and have conversations about this with various people I interact with during the week, I often tell people that one of the reasons this is such an...
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Sometimes all I can do is sigh…
Sigh… Click here to comment on this article. Please share this post with others! Click the following link to read the entire post and leave a comment: → "Sometimes all I can do is sigh…" by Jeremy Myers
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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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Why Atheists are the True Worshipers of God … (and a Call for Christian...
People often assume that we must determine whether or not God exists before we can raise the question of what this God is like. In other words, why bother with the question of the nature, attributes,...
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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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A Theological Shibboleth about the Violence of God
Do you know what a Shibboleth is? You might have heard the term and not known where it comes from… In modern usage, a shibboleth is an idea, practice, belief, or custom which differentiates one group...
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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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