Did God Really Command Genocide?: Coming to Terms with the Justice of God

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 doesnt go away. Did God really command genocide? Is the command to utterly destroy morally unjustifiable? Is it literal? Are the issues more 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.