The Bible’s Detractors
Detractors claim that the Bible presents us with a cruel God, even a sadistic God, and that Biblical faith is, in fact, evil. This is because they read the texts about the command of Israel to wipe out different ethnic groups that inhabited ancient Canaan, and the passages about the hard judgment that awaits evil people either after death or at the final judgment. I wrote about this issue recently.
This, however, is a reaction to the less than 10% of hard texts in the Bible. There are good explanations for these texts.
Read the whole article here: Issue 55