God has a bad reputation.
This expanded edition includes an updated preface, afterword, and appendix addressing the story of Noah and the flood..
Without minimizing the sometimes harsh realities of the biblical record, Lamb assembles an overall portrait that gives coherence to our understanding of God in both the Old and New Testaments.
He provides historical and cultural background to shed light on problematic passages and bring underlying themes to the fore.
How do we make sense of the seeming contradiction? Can God be trusted or not? David Lamb unpacks the complexity of the Old Testament to explore the character of God.
Alongside troubling passages of God\'s punishment and judgment are pictures of God\'s love, forgiveness, goodness, and slowness to anger.
The story is more complicated than that.
But wait.
The Old Testament in particular seems at times to portray God as capricious and malevolent, wiping out armies and nations, punishing enemies with extreme prejudice.
Many think of God as wrathful and angry, smiting people right and left for no apparent reason.
God has a bad reputation
