Ep #16- Is God a moral monster?

Did God really command ethnic cleansing genocides in the Old Testament? What was the Conquest of Canaan under Joshua all about? How could God wipe out entire nations, even the young? Or did He? How do we read Joshua? Join us for the final and longest podcast of 2019!

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Links and citations:
Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion page 51

Ancient Jewish History: The Cult of Moloch



Josh McDowell and Sean McDowell, The Evidence that Demands a Verdict, pages 483, 484

Megan Bishop Moore and Brad E. Kelle, Biblical History and Israel’s Past: The Changing Study of the Bible and History, page 96

Nadav Na’aman, The ‘Conquest of Canaan’ in the Book of Joshua and in History, in Canaan in the Second Millennium B.C.E: Collected Essays Volume 2, pages 331, 340, 341

Lawson G Stone, Early Israel and Its Appearance in Canaan, in Ancient Israel’s History: An Introduction to Issues and Sources, page 139

Bryant G Wood, Did the Israelites Conquer Jericho? A New Look at the Archaeological Evidence, pages 1, 2, 10, 11

David E Graves, Biblical Archaeology: An Introduction with Recent Discoveries That Support the Reliability of the Bible, page 152

Richard S Hess, ‘The Jericho and Ai of the Book of Joshua’, in Critical Issues in Early Israelite History, pages 39, 41, 42

Peter Briggs, Testing the Factuality of the Conquest of Ai Narrative in the Book of Joshua, page 28

Ralph K Hawkins, How Israel Became a People

www.allaboutarchaeology.org


Verses:
Romans 8:28
Psalm 24:1, 31:19, 33:5, 34:8, 96:10, 97:9, 98:9, 135:6, 145:9, 147:5
John 5:22, 17:16
Ecclesiastes 3:17
Hebrews 10:30
Mathew 25:31
Jeremiah 23:6
Isaiah 30:18, 61:8
James 1:17
Genesis 17:8
Deuteronomy 2: 2-5, 9:5, 18:9, 18:12
Joshua 13:1, 15:13, 21: 43-45, 23: 5
Judges 1:10, 9, 19, 27-36, 3:1


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