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- This product had a total of 49 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jul 15 2019.
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This book reads as a thesis and is not for the average reader
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This is not a fast read
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Starting with the first principle that god is most fully and accurately revealed in the suffering and death of jesus the author exhaustively works through the dilemma of the violence and mayhem documented in the old testament
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There are flaws in this line of reasoning admittedly strict scriptural literalists will have difficulty with some conclusions about cultural influences on the composition of the ot writings
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But i have yet to hear a position that addresses this dilemma as adequately
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Note that since this work was published a considerably abridged version titled cross vision has come out
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It gives answers to questions most christians cant answer specifically on the portrayals of god as being a violence approving god
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The idea that parts of scripture reflect the thinking of human beings with prechristian inadequate and harmful ancient near east ane ideas about god is a difficult one for many evangelicals