The Old Testament and the New Testament - What to Do With the Violence of God

The hottest topic now for an Old Testament teacher is what to do with the violence of God. There's a church in my neighborhood that currently has a marquee out that says, if God seems far away, you moved. The Bible says that God comes and goes and sometimes is present to us and sometimes is absent. That doesn't fit with a kind of a cozy reassuring gospel. And we have to take both of those seriously.