Sermon Notes

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Introduction: Troubling War Texts
kill all (women, children, men)yes, we killed everyone
not one person is left standing
none remain breathing

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Traditional: Yes, it literally happened. But God is good, just and holy. We simply cannot to resolve the ethical problems (mystery).

New Atheism: God wanted to literally kill every breathing Canaanite men, women and children. So, you worship a genocidal God.

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Better Answer?
1. Hyperbole
2. Incremental Ethic
3. The crying war God
4. The war God who hates WMDs
5. The war God who hates David’s bloody war hands
6. Q&A

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1. Hyperbole
Is hyperbole truthful?

2. Incremental Ethic

3. The crying war God
Subversive war texts

I [God] weep as Jazer weeps … I drench you with tears … my heart throbs for Moab like a harp, my very soul laments for [them] …—Isaiah 16:9,11

I will wail for Moab; I will cry out for all Moab; for the people of Kir Hareseth I mourn. More than for Jazar I weep for you… .My heart moans for Moab like a flute, and my heart moans like a flute for the people of Kir Hareseth …—Jeremiah 48:31-32, 36