Heavenly Genocide: Exploring God's Command for Biblical Israel to Wipe Out Entire Nations (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798244183931)

For centuries, the Bible's tales of divine wrath and conquest have been the elephant in the room for Christians. The commands in Deuteronomy to "utterly destroy" the Canaanites (Deuteronomy 20:16-18) or Joshua's sweeping campaigns of annihilation (Joshua 11:14) are hardly the kind of verses you see stitched onto pillows or painted on nursery walls. These passages don't inspire; they provoke-summoning the worst accusations: God is a tyrant, a moral monster, a genocidal maniac.

Even devout believers often flinch. How do we reconcile the image of Jesus cradling children (Mark 10:16) with a God who orders infants to be killed (1 Samuel 15:3)? For skeptics, this contradiction is a goldmine: If God is love (1 John 4:8), how can He command such violence? If He's good (Mark 10:18), why doesn't He act good? These aren't new questions, but they remain some of the thorniest issues in Christian theology. And they demand more than soundbites or rehearsed apologetics-they demand courage to face them head-on - which is precisely what I intend to do in this short book!

• Dr. Eitan Bar, a Jewish-Christian scholar with advanced Bible, apologetics, and theology degrees, is a unique combination. As a native Hebrew speaker and Bible scholar, he combines his Jewish background with his Christian education and faith to offer an accessible guide to understanding the Bible.