God Is a Man of War: The Problem of Violence in the Old Testament (Stephen De Young)

An exposition and explanation of why God sometimes commands violence, and of why the Old and New Testaments are not in tension or contradiction. With my own thoughts on justice, in particular the appalling concept of "social justice."

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https://theworthyhouse.com/2022/01/26/god-is-a-man-of-war-the-problem-of-violence-in-the-old-testament-stephen-de-young/

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"Many, if not most, modern Christians are crypto-Marcionites. They resonate with the heresy that God, as revealed in the Old Testament, is different from God as revealed by Jesus Christ. Marcion (the second-century-A.D. originator of the heresy, an early form of Gnosticism) had to throw out the entire Old Testament and most of the New Testament to make this idea coherent. Moderns don’t bother with coherency; they simply erase or ignore much of what God does in the Old Testament, the Hebrew Bible, because some of it is unpalatable to modern tastes. To correct this basic theological error, Father Stephen De Young, an Orthodox priest, is here to justify, or at least explain, the ways of God to man." . . . .