Conquest, Exile, & Cross: Replacing Projection With Reality
Written by Branson Parler
on February 24, 2014
on February 24, 2014
The problem
If you’re a
proponent of nonviolence, you will definitely hear the question: what about the
conquest of Canaan? How does this fit with the call to nonviolence? How does
this “violent” God fit with the nonviolent Jesus? Numerous books have engaged
this issue and the problem of God’s violence, often focusing on the Old
Testament (usually meaning the conquest recorded in Joshua). These questions
must be answered carefully because the answers given have far-reaching
implications and not simply for our view of nonviolence. My contention is that
Christian pacifists must affirm certain points of continuity between Joshua,
Jeremiah, and Jesus—conquest, exile, and cross—or else they may undermine the
central logic of the biblical narrative and, along with it, our doctrine of
God.
Conquest
One popular answer
is that the conquest narratives record Israel’s projection onto God rather than
God’s actual instructions to Israel. . .
Read more at http://www.missioalliance.org/conquest-exile-cross-replacing-projection-with-reality/
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