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    God is Good: Exploring the Character of the Biblical God
    God is Good: Exploring the Character of the Biblical God
    God is Good: Exploring the Character of the Biblical God
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    God is Good: Exploring the Character of the Biblical God

    By Martin G. Kuhrt and Alex Jacob

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    Is the God of the Bible the most unpleasant character in all fiction, as Richard Dawkins claims in The God Delusion? He is backed up by former preacher and now virulent atheist, Dan Barker, who has cited Scripture, seeking to justify every one of Dawkins's infamous character slurs about the God of the Old Testament. Dawkins says the biblical God is "jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully." Barker has added eight accusations of his own. Dawkins was too kind, he says. The God of the Bible is also "a pyromaniacal, angry, merciless, curse hurling, vaccicidal, aborticidal, cannibalistic slavemonger." Furthermore, Barker thoroughly implicates Jesus in the alleged crimes of his Father. God is Good seeks to answer every one of these twenty-seven accusations. Written for theological students, pastors, preachers, thoughtful laypeople who wince at some of what they read in the Bible, and those atheists who are honestly searching for truth, this book ducks none of the difficult questions and problematic passages.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherResource Publications
    Release dateJul 30, 2020
    ISBN9781725263963
    God is Good: Exploring the Character of the Biblical God
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    Martin G. Kuhrt

    Martin G. Kuhrt is vicar of the Church of the Holy Spirit, Aylesbury, in the United Kingdom. After a brief flirtation with the legal profession, he was ordained into ministry in the Church of England twenty-four years ago, serving in various parishes and as a chaplain to the international community of Lee Abbey in Devon. He is married to Anna and has four children in full-time education, three golden retriever breeding dogs, and two guinea pigs.

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