When you listen to critics on the internet, there's a similar bad argument, many of them parrot.

How could anyone support the Bible when it has such awful things in it?

Some of these critics even want to ban the Bible using obscenity laws that are meant to protect children.

It talks about adultery, talks about bestiality, talks about cannibalism.

One doesn't have to turn very far in the Bible to find something that is just egregious.

And I'm not sure why we teach those lessons to our children.

These kinds of arguments can catch average Christians off guard when they only remember the more pleasant stories they might have heard in Sunday school.

So in today's episode, we're going to show how to answer this argument and use one particularly gruesome story from the Old Testament as a case study in doing so.

But before we do that, there are two rules you need to remember.

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possible at trenornpodcast.com. And rule number two, when reading the Bible, remember that

just because the Bible records something, that doesn't mean God recommends it. Contrary to some

popular opinions, the Bible is not an instruction book that God directly dictated to human authors.

The Bible is a collection of writings from different authors who record events in salvation history across different literary genres.

It's true the Bible records evil deeds like the Rape of Dinah, or Cain's Murder of Abel, but it does not condone these acts.

This should be a common sense principle,

but you'd be surprised at how many critics simply list Bible passages that sound evil, and then

make the incorrect inference that the Bible itself is evil while ignoring the context of these

passages. Pope Bennett at the 16th addressed these kinds of passages in his post-sonatal apostolic

exhortation, Verbam Domini. He wrote the following. God's plan is manifested progressively

and it is accomplished slowly. In successive stages and despite human resistance, God chose a

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