Is the God of the Old Testament a homicidal maniac right now on Focus?

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grow this podcast. Our friend John DeRosa is back this time. He's the author of a new book called One Less God than You.

And in that book he responds to a variety of atheist memes and slogans.

Among the claims that gets trotted out again and again on the internet is that claim that the

God of the Old Testament is a maniac he's nuts who could follow this God this murderous

God in order to prove this point you do have to ignore most of what's actually written in the Hebrew

text and focus just on a few troublesome texts.

But even the Christian has to admit, those troublesome texts are there.

There do seem to be instances in the Hebrew scriptures where God

all orders kind of radical acts of violence. So how do we make sense of those?

We check in with John DeRosa to see how he does it. John De Rosa, thanks for doing this with us again.

John Derosa, thanks for doing this with us again.

I really am a great admirer of your book One Less God Than You.

I, by the way, it takes a half hour to read the title.

I mean, we're practically through the podcast by the time I read the title.

But let me just, let me start that again.

I'm a big fan of your book, One Less God Than You,

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