Greg Boyd takes the pacifist and Marcionite route

Although the “Old Testament God” is also merciful and loving, He also has an uncharacteristic “violent strand,” Boyd explained. He claimed: “[This] picture of God is very very different than the one we see in Christ.” According to the pastor, although a sacrificing Christ called for nonviolence and love, Jehovah was “positively hateful” and “merciless” at times. “Here we have a Bible that is divinely inspired and yet here we have these contradictory pictures of God,” Boyd observed.

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