GM4: The Biblical Passages (Introduction)

This post is part of the series; God: Merciful? Maniac? Mass-Murderer? (GM4)

Right at the center of the challenge to Christian faith from GM4 is the claim that the Old Testament portrays God as an “evil, war-mongering, maniacal, ethnic-cleansing, mass-murderer.” To make that case GM4 appeals to six passages from the OT; Exodus 32:26-29; Numbers 31; Second Kings; Isaiah 13:15-18; Jeremiah 9; and Ezekiel 9:5-7.