3 reasons for Christians to start questionng their faith

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So then you're strawmanning me as you know I don't consider the Bible inerrant, infallible or divine.

Given that I was talking about theists in general, and you are not all theists, I was hardly talking about you, now was I?

Yeah? I'd be willing to bet that you go right back to claiming the God of the Bible ordered genocide within a week if not immediately.

You bet I would. Because a contradiction doesn't mean that the option you personally dislike is deleted, it means that the bible doesn't order genocide and orders genocide. That's kind of the point of a contradiction, having two mutually exclusive things in it.

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God doesn't order genocide anywhere in the Bible. Read the story of Sodom and Gommorah. God says for the sake of 5 righteous people, he will not destroy Sodom. God's judgements are aimed at the wickedness of the canaanites, not the color of their skin. Because they are evil people "their destable deeds" not because of their skin color, God destroys them.

I submit to you that murder is no less heinous because it isn't also racist.

The Bible does not sanction genocide. What it does sanction is judgement on wicked people that God personally considers to deserve punishment. This is similar to what the allied nations did in world war 2 when they fought against Hitler and the Japanese and killed many, many civilians, knowing they would kill civilians in a war, or what nations do when they punish criminals.

The difference is that the battle plan against Hitler and the Japanese was never "Wipe them all out, including the women and the children and the civilians that have done nothing wrong." In fact, such a battle plan would be roundly condemned as immoral, but it's okay if god does it?

God is interested in punishing sin, not arbitrarily killing people.

Tell that to the kids he sent bears to kill for teasing a prophet.