This message was based on an array of texts that are not commonly read in worship: Gen 22, Deut 7:1-4, Ps 137:8-9. 1 Sam 15:2-3, Number 25:4-5, and Mark 7:26-30, Rom 11:17, all in conversation with 2 Timothy 3:16-17 and Hebrews 4:12-13.
Faith & All That Bad Stuff in the Bible
What kind of God sanctions genocide, the suppression of women, and all the other bad stuff in the Bible? If that's what God is like, why would a rational person trust God?
