James & Carolanne

God of Genocide

Is your Jesus capable of ordering the genocide of a people group or two? I've been reading through the Old Testament again recently and have been shocked by the violence that I read of God ordering His people to wipe out entire people groups. In the past I have read these passages and been pacified with the thought that "well, they were evil and deserved it" or "God was punishing them".  While this is true,...