Did God Really Command Genocide?

Posted on 18 January 2018 by Paul Copan

A common objection to belief in the God of the Bible is that a good, kind, and loving deity would never command the wholesale slaughter of nations Even Christians have a hard time stomaching such a thought, and many avoid reading those difficult Old Testament passages that make us squeamish Instead, we quickly jump to the enemy loving, forgiving Jesus of the New Testament And yet, the question doesn t go away Did God really command genocide Is the command to utterly destroy morally unjustifiable Is it literal Are the issues complex and nuanced than we realize In the tradition of his popular Is God a Moral Monster , Paul Copan teams up with Matthew Flannagan to tackle some of the most confusing and uncomfortable passages of Scripture Together they help the Christian and nonbeliever alike understand the biblical, theological, philosophical, and ethical implications of Old Testament warfare passages Pastors, youth pastors, campus ministers, apologetics readers, and laypeople will find that this book both enlightens and equips them for serious discussion of troubling spiritual questions. 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[ by ] Paul Copan [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr Non christians have always pointed out that God of the Old Testament is angry and vengeful And that He ordered a genocide to massacre the entire population So what is the christian s response towards such a statement Paul Copan and Matthew Flanagan attempts to answer this thorny question in this book Copan and Flanagan are no strangers to these questions and has showed that christians does have a very good answers against this questions.First, Copan and Flanagan helps the readers understand t Non christians have always pointed out that God of the Old Testament is angry and vengeful And that He ordered a genocide to massacre the entire population So what is the christian s response towards such a statement Paul Copan and Matthew Flanagan attempts to answer this thorny question in this book Copan and Flanagan are no strangers to these questions and has showed that christians does have a very good answers against this questions.First, Copan and Flanagan helps the readers understand the question at hand, which centers around the Crucial Moral Principle, It is morally wrong to deliberately and mercilessly slaughter men, women, and children who are innocent of any serious wrongdoing Which Copan and Flanagan distil...The style in which this book is written leans toward the academic philosophic, so it can take a bit of adapting to if that s not the genre that you typically read However, it s worth taking the time to make the adjustment in order to glean the insights that are contained in this book This book directly confronts that various philosophical arguments that are at the foundation of the atheist movement It also demonstrates how easy it is to misinterpret scripture due to a lack of understanding or The style in which this book is written leans toward the academic philosophic, so it can take a bit of adapting to if that s not the genre that you typically read However, it s worth taking the time to make the adjustment in order to glean the insights that are contained in this book This book directly confronts that various philosophical arguments that are at the foundation of the atheist movement It also demonstrates...The titular question of this book is one I have asked in many different forms when I have read the old testament stories of conquest and war As a believer, these passages cause me great internal conflict How do I reconcile the loving message of Jesus with the apparent genocide described in Joshua and other old testament books Is the conquest described there any different that the genocide of the Native Americans on this continent The authors present a detailed, through and sometimes dense ans The titular question of this book is one I have asked in many different forms when I have read the old testament stories of conquest and war As a believer, these passages cause me great internal conflict How do I reconcile the loving message of Jesus with the apparent genocide described in Joshua and other old testament books Is the conquest described there any different that the genocide of the Native Americans on this continent The authors present a detailed, through an...Pretty good and very thorough, maybe too thorough It seemed at times a bit unnecessarily long.Great content, research, biblical framework though.Paul Copan and Matt Flanagan fail to offer fresh insights on biblical interpretation in Did God Command Genocide Copan and Flanagan have clearly put their conclusions ahead of their questions, and the result is a scriptural shell game attempting to exonerate the almighty from theunseemly bits of his book.We re dealing with God s directive to completely destroy those pesky Canaanites In their attempt to gloss over this troubling fact, Paul Copan and Matt Flanagan fail to offer fresh insights on biblical interpretation in Did God Command Genocide Copan and Flanagan have clearly put their conclusions ahead of their questions, and the result is a scriptural shell game attempting to exonerate the almighty from theunseemly bits of his book.We re dealing with God s directive to completely destroy those pesky Canaanites In their attempt to gloss over this troubling fact, Copan a...This is a hefty book Probably one I will use as a reference for future note The authors make a massively comprehensive argument rebutting the accusations of skeptics and atheists that the wars of Joshua were immoral genocides that inspired further acts of religious aggression throughout history They make biblical, hermeneutical, theological, philosophical, ethical, legal, and historical arguments this isn t a book to put in the hands of the average lay person who has questions, but is somethi This is a hefty book Probably one I will use as a reference for future note The authors make a massively comprehensive argument rebutting the accusations of skeptics and atheists that the wars of Joshua were immoral genocides that inspired further acts of religious aggression throughout history They make biblical, hermeneutical, theological, philosophical, ethical, legal, and historical arguments this isn t a book to put in the hands of the average lay person who has questions, but is something that needs to be digested and passed along by someone who can follow all the arguments I was overall impressed with the book The arguments regarding the hyp...Overall, I thought this book was helpful and well done They do an extremely thorough job at dealing with this issue and all its various facets I think they re reading of the conquest texts is basically right and puts an entirely different perspective on the issue There s no mistaking that the various writings in the OT use hyperbolic language to describe conquest This is a consistent literary convention and we have to understand this if we want to know what these texts are actually saying I Overall, I thought this book was helpful and well done They do an extremely thorough job at dealing with this issue and all its various facets I think they re reading of the conquest texts is basically right and puts an entirely different perspective on the issue There s no mistaking that the various writings in the OT use hyperbolic language to describe conquest This is a consistent literary convention and we have to understand this if we want to know what t...Did God Really Command Genocide doesn t just attempt to answer the title question, it also addresses most of the meaningful questions surrounding divine command theory and just war ethics The book sets itself up as a sort of dialectic with New Atheist thinkers who regularly accuse the Judeo Christian God of being a warmonger, psychopath, or maybe worse Strengths of DGRCG The exegesis of the book of Joshua and other OT war texts is great And it needed to be The crux of the issue is how one u Did God Really Command Genocide doesn t just attempt to answer the title question, it also addresses most of the meaningful questions surrounding divine command theory and just war ethics The book sets itself up as a sort of dialectic with New Atheist thinkers who regularly accuse the Judeo Christian God of being a warmonger, psychopath, or maybe worse Strengths of DGRCG The exegesis of the book of Joshua and other OT war texts is great And it needed to be The crux of the issue is how one understands these...This book addresses the same general issue as Copan s earlier book, Is God a Moral Monster , but in a muchexhaustive manner This book is muchdemanding reading, so if someone wanted apopular level discussion of the subject, yet worthwhile, I d recommend the earlier one Did God Really Command Genocide is a very detailed, meticulous discussion of many aspects of the question textual, hermeneutical, philosophical, ethical, and theological The authors engage a host of other writ This book addresses the same general issue as Copan s earlier book, Is God a Moral Monster , but in a muchexhaustive manner This book is muchdemanding reading, so if someone wanted apopular level discussion of the subject, yet worthwhile, I d recommend the earlier one Did God Really Command Genocide is a very detailed, meticulous discussion of many aspects of the question textual, hermeneutical, philosophical, ethical, and theological The authors engage a host of other writers and thinkers on the subject and related matters, such as Speech Act Theory, Bradley s Crucial Moral Principle, and various thinkers on Divine Command Theory They have a substantial discussion of what it ...One of the most challenging questions that I have faced as a believer is the following, Did God command a moral evil in the annihilation of a people group The texts seem to indicate as much that is, however, until I read this work which make a compelling case that not only is genocide not in view here, but God himself likely didn t command Gennoacide There are two key moves the authors make First, the texts are reviewed from Deuteronomy ...

18 January 2018

Paul Copan