For example, many of us have abusive relatives in our family histories. Yet, as Stark notes, we can’t just move on from some stories about God, just as we can’t just move on from certain stories in our family history. And, I think that there are a lot of dead-end visions of God that the reader should reject and move on. A lot of stuff in the Bible, however, is material that us intended to be provocative and disconcerting! It is a book that can be used to awaken a moral conscience and inspire selfless love. One of my profs in school said it best: my biggest problem with the Bible is God! Of course the problem is made worse when people read the Bible as an inerrant handbook to the Absolute Truth about God, the World and Everything Else the Bible Talks about. A great book that analyses the various images of God presented in the Bible is Thom Stark’s, The Human Faces of God.
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