Is This a God You Want to Worship? Some Horrors of Scripture.
August 15, 2021•00:08:32
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Is This a God You Want to Worship? Some Horrors of Scripture.
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Parts of the Hebrew Bible insist on the absolute purity of the Israelites – they are to have no contact with outside influences that might compromise their devotion to Yahweh, the God of Israel, in any way whatsoever. If they do come to be influenced by outsiders, God punishes them severely; and sometimes, as a further response, he orders the slaughter of the outsiders. This is the wrath of God in its most severe and unbending form, evidently against people who didn’t even know he existed.
Read by Petra Ortiz