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Hey, Dad, Tired, we are continuing a conversation about the question that kind of permeates a lot of minds, particularly if you're new to Christianity,

or you haven't studied it much, and you might get caught up with someone asking you a question

about the morality of God in the Old Testament. The conversation kind of goes like this. Well,

Jesus seems to be kind of this cool, peace-loving guy, and if he is the same in nature as the God of the Old Testament, what happened between the Old and the New Testament?

Did God chill out a little bit?

Or you've got Jesus, like, walking around and kissing babies and raising people from the dead and being kind and gentle and crying with people who are losing loved ones. And the Bible

tells us that he and the father are the same, that they are one in their nature, they're one in

their character. And so it kind of leads to the question, what do you do then with this Old Testament

God who commits the killing of whole people groups that permits polygamy, that permits these things.

And that's kind of the oversimplified version of it, as we're told it.

And it was something that tripped me up early on in Christianity.

But what I recognized is even a cursory understanding of much of the conversation led to a way of recognizing and rectifying this idea

of God being different in the Old New Testament. Today we're going to tackle, we talked about

slavery a couple weeks back, and today we're talking about the moments that Richard Dawkins

would say that God is an ethnic cleanser, or Christopher Hitchens

and the God delusion accuses God of being the God of the Old Testament of being someone who's

racist and intent on wiping out whole people groups. Now, on the most basic level, some of the

ridiculousness of this just has to do with what we talked about previously,

which is the analogia scriptura or the scriptura analogia, which is an analogy of scripture.

What does that tell us?

That tells us people hopping up of different ethnicities or of different skin colors or anything else like that, the idea that that was somehow outside of God's design

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