One objection that the atheist Emerson Green makes against Christianity is that there’s no way to harmonize the merciful God of Christianity, with God in the Old Testament seemingly commanding genocide. So how do we make sense of this apparent contradiction?

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Hey, and welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer. So today I want to talk about whether God commands genocide in the Old Testament, and if he does, what do we make of that? So I’ll tell you how I got here. An atheist, former Christian by the name of Emerson Green was responding to a Capturing Chri…