Vengeance Is Mine

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

Happy who seizes and smashes your infants against the rock.  Psalm 137:9  Alter Happy – It’s difficult to believe God in the midst of great trauma.  If God is good, if He cares about us, then why do we suffer so much?  It doesn’t feel like a test.  It feels like abandonment, or divine failure. …

Death by Divine Edict

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

In the towns of the latter peoples, however, which the LORD your God is giving you as a heritage, you shall not let a soul remain alive.  Deuteronomy 20:16  JPS Remain – “Kill them all.  Every man, woman and child.  Even the animals.”  Does that sound like a compassionate God to you?  Commands like this…