Episode 489: A Faith of Both Testaments, Part Six--Violence and God

Jesus seems clear in the Gospels that his followers are called to love their enemies and to refuse to answer evil with evil, even forbidding his disciples from using their weapons to protect him in the garden on the night of his arrest. The rest of the New Testament has a profound sense of non-violence as well. But what do we do about the accounts of violence and warfare in the Old Testament, and the times God is described as authorizing that violence? Join us for the final episode of our series, "A Faith of Both Testaments," here on Crazy Faith Talk!