October Webinar · “The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all...

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HostsNathan C. Wagnon, Director of Equipping & ApologeticsWatermark Community Church

Nika Spaulding, Director of Women’s Equipping & CurriculumWatermark Community Church

Sylvia Bateman, Stewardship & Equipping CoordinatorWatermark Community Church

Guest PanelistDr. Paul CopanProfessor and the Pledger Family Chair of Philosophy and Ethics Palm Beach Atlantic University

IS GOD A MORAL MONSTER?“The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasantcharacter in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust,unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethniccleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal,genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic,capriciously malevolent bully.”

Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

WHAT ROLE DOESUNDERSTANDING BACKGROUND

& CONTEXT PLAY?

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CANAANITE “GENOCIDE”

HUMAN TRAFFICKING& SLAVERY

MISOGYNY & ABUSE

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HOW SHOULD WE UNDERSTANDTHE OLD TESTAMENT LAW?

DOES THE BIBLE PRESENT TWODIFFERENT GODS?

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