Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 60092. Slavery in Scripture is raised more often as an accusation than as a question, and I understand why. The charge is that the Bible not only tolerates slavery but endorses it, and that the transatlantic trade was therefore consistent with Christian teaching. If that were true it would be a very serious matter…
Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 60091. The Canaanite conquest is the passage in the Old Testament I am asked about more than any other, and it deserves better than the two standard responses. One is to explain it away until nothing troubling remains. The other is to shrug and say God can do what He likes. Neither is honest,…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 60086. Lot’s daughters are the subject of one of the ugliest sentences in the Bible. The men of Sodom have surrounded the house demanding that Lot hand over his two visitors, and Lot answers by offering his two virgin daughters to the mob instead, telling the crowd to do to them as they please….