Land and Judgment

Abstract

"One of the greatest obstacles to readers of the Old Testament is the seemingly arbitrary way in which God deals with the nations surrounding Israel. God’s commands to Israel to slaughter entire nations give the reader a sense of uneasiness, wondering how such a loving God could act in such a ruthless way. Christians often wonder how they can connect the loving figure of Jesus in the New Testament to such a wrathful God in the Old. Non-Christians also see great inconsistency in God’s behaviour in the Old Testament and often cite this as a barrier to their trust in such a God"