It was Richard Dawkins who popularized the phrase “genocidal bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser” to describe the God of the Old Testament in his most well-known work The God Delusion. This attack line has become more common and is used to undermine the possibility that the God of the Bible, as described, is a just God.
This Sunday, I want to take this attack head-on and deal with the accusation directly. To do so, I will use scripture to explain scripture, reason to unpack what is unreasonable, and where I don’t have the answers, I will let you know.