The most uncomfortable passages in my opinion

Very unsettling. Have you read Greg Boyd’s book about this…“Cross Vision”? He is a Princeton educated pastor who attempted to write a book defending and explaining all the difficult passages in the Bible (violence related). He found he could not do it. He decided that God revealed himself most truly in Jesus, who said he was a better revelation, but that the OT Israelites interpreted Him incorrectly, through the lenses of their culture. His larger work, “Crucifixion of the Warrior God,” followed by the shorter version, “Cross Vision,” outlined his theory. There are some compelling points, such as the fact that Jesus pointed out that some of the Law was because of the Israelites’ hardness of heart, and was transcended and overturned by His coming. I see some concerns with it, but also feel that it opened up a lot of insight for me.