😡 Why Is The Bible So Violent? 🤷‍♂️

Why is the Bible So Violent?  Why would God put such examples of bloodshed and wickedness in the Scriptures? 

You can rest assured that God’s presentation of these things in the inspired Scripture is no mistake. He presents the world, as it really is, in divine, context-laden, interpretive words.  Words, not pictures.  Not lurid videos of the blood and gore that you might see in the movies or on the news, but words - inspired words. 

Words, so that you might have word-built images in your mind. Verbal descriptions with divine explanations are not the same as worldly depictions for entertainment or education with no ultimate divine meaning or eternal benefit.

We live in a very soft, easily offended, emotionally fragile culture that makes it almost impossible to grasp what most of history has been like, and what most of the world is still like. Perhaps God gave us the Bible the way it is, with all the horrors, partly because He knew the day would come when we would be so spoiled, so cocooned, so overprotected, so coddled that we would not have the emotional and mental capacities to grasp the utterly crucial realities in the world. 

You are invited to join Dr. T. D. Worthington for a discussion on Biblical Violence in this week’s edition of PathLight.