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    Is the Bible Sexist, Racist, Homophobic, and Genocidal?
    Is the Bible Sexist, Racist, Homophobic, and Genocidal?
    Is the Bible Sexist, Racist, Homophobic, and Genocidal?
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    Is the Bible Sexist, Racist, Homophobic, and Genocidal?

    By Jonathan Morrow

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    Can a thoughtful person today seriously believe that God wrote a book? There are an unprecedented number of sophisticated attacks on the origin, credibility, and reliability of the Bible. It can be difficult to know what to say when skepticism and secularism take over so many conversations.

    Additionally, confusion and doubt about the Bible being God's Word are becoming as common inside the church as they are in the broader culture. The purpose of this book is to respond to these challenges, sound bites, and slogans...and give people confidence that the Bible can be trusted and that it matters for our lives because God really has spoken.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMoody Publishers
    Release dateSep 1, 2014
    ISBN9780802493040
    Is the Bible Sexist, Racist, Homophobic, and Genocidal?
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    Jonathan Morrow

    Jonathan Morrow is the founder of www.thinkChristianly.org. He cowrote (with Sean McDowell) Is God Just a Human Invention? and is the author of Welcome to College: A Christ-follower’s Guide for the Journey. He graduated with a MDiv and an MA from Talbot School of Theology and serves as equipping pastor at Fellowship Bible Church in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. You can visit him online at www.thinkChristianly.org.

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      Is the Bible Sexist, Racist, Homophobic, and Genocidal? - Jonathan Morrow

      CONTENTS

      Foreword

      Introduction:

      What You May Not Have Learned in Church about the Bible

        1. Is the Bible Anti-intellectual?

        2. What Can We Really Know about Jesus?

        3. How Do We Know What the Earliest Christians Believed?

        4. Why Were Some Gospels Banned from the Bible?

        5. Did the Biblical Writers Lie about Their Identity?

        6. Has the Biblical Text Been Corrupted over the Centuries?

        7. Are the Gospels Full of Contradictions?

        8. Is the Bible Unscientific?

      9. Is the Bible Sexist, Racist, Homophobic, and Genocidal?

      10. What Do Christians Believe about the Bible?

      11. Which Interpretation of the Bible Is Correct?

      Conclusion:

      What If a New Generation Took the Bible Seriously?

      Notes

      Acknowledgments

      Appendix 1:

      A Noncircular Argument for the Bible as God’s Word

      Appendix 2:

      Archaeology and the Historical Reliability of the Bible

      Appendix 3:

      Why a New Generation Doesn’t Take the Bible Seriously

      One possibility I urge them to consider is that the passage that bothers them might not teach what it appears to them to be teaching. Many of the texts people find offensive can be cleared up with a decent commentary that puts the issue into historical context.¹

      Tim Keller

      The simple fact of the matter is that a lot recorded in the Bible—especially in the Old Testament—is shocking, confusing, and honestly makes the modern reader uncomfortable. Many Christians simply pretend it’s not there. However, that tactic will no longer work because the so-called New Atheists, such as Richard Dawkins, are shouting it from the rooftops:

      The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.²

      Those are some pretty heavy accusations to be making about the Almighty. Scientific objections to the Bible are challenging because Christians don’t want to appear ignorant or irrational. But moral challenges to the Bible are often harder to answer because they must be dealt with at both the rational and emotional level. To make matters worse, moral objections like the ones Dawkins mentions can

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