God is Good: Exploring the Character of the Biblical God

Is the God of the Bible the most unpleasant character in all fiction as Richard Dawkins claims in The God Delusion? He is backed up by former preacher and now virulent atheist Dan Barker who has cited Scripture seeking to justify every one of Dawkinss infamous character slurs about the God of the Old Testament. Dawkins says the biblical God is jealous and proud of it; a petty unjust unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic homophobic racist infanticidal genocidal filicidal pestilential megalomaniacal sadomasochistic capriciously malevolent bully. Barker has added eight accusations of his own. Dawkins was too kind he says. The God of the Bible is also a pyromaniacal angry merciless curse hurling vaccicidal aborticidal cannibalistic slavemonger. Furthermore Barker thoroughly implicates Jesus in the alleged crimes of his Father. God is Good seeks to answer every one of these twenty-seven accusations. Written for theological students pastors preachers thoughtful laypeople who wince at some of what they read in the Bible and those atheists who are honestly searching for truth this book ducks none of the difficult questions and problematic passages.