Strictly hypothetical. What if? How good is your imagination?

[Randy]

@Ralphie

if” the OT turned out to be descriptive with pin point accuracy and historically real time detailed, authentic recordings of the violence it includes in its pages? If you could imagine it, how would that impact your life, your faith, your relationship with God.

Good question. Are you talking about the violence? We have discussed some aspects in these threads. I struggle with it, for sure.

Inerrancy and mass slaughter

Randy and I started an enriching conversation on another thread touching on topics of inerrancy and relation to the Israelites consquest. Rather than risk hijacking that thread’s purpose, I thought it appropriate to start a new post for this topic… I don’t dispute that much of the OT is troubling in this regard, and will never brush off anyone’s concerns or genuine wrestling with such things. But given that “not a sparrow can fall to the ground apart from the will of your father in heaven…” I…

Did God allow Elisha to send bears to kill children?

On the issue of 2nd Kings 2:23-34 in which is says, “Then he went up from there to Bethel; and as he was going up by the way, young lads came out from the city and mocked him and said to him, “Go up, you baldhead; go up, you baldhead!” When he looked behind him and saw them, he cursed them in the name of the LORD. Then two female bears came out of the woods and tore up forty-two lads of their number.” So, what are we to make of this? Elisha makes a curse upon the children in the name of the LOR…