Day of the Lord: Q + R
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The Origins of Divine Violence
When you look at the Old Testament narratives, portraits of divine violence, it's very rare to find a narrative where in the narrative, God is directly doing the violence. Even the ones that you assume you think for sure, you already know, are God doing it. The destroyer is an evil being who appears in a handful of narratives where you see plagues spreading - like the strike of a plague. So what Paul has done is he's developed based on the appearance of the destroyer. And where he sees God doing direct divine violence, he assumes God giving people over to some destructive force that killed them.
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