I spent more than 20 years preaching that the Bible was the Word of God. But eventually I had to ask why a book supposedly inspired by an all-knowing God so often reflects the moral assumptions of the ancient cultures that produced it. Slavery. The treatment of women. Divinely commanded violence. Sabbath laws. Different moral standards across different biblical texts. For me, the question became much bigger than whether I could find an explanation for each difficult passage. If God is ultimately
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I spent more than 20 years preaching that the Bible was the Word of God. But eventually I had to ask why a book supposedly inspired by an all-knowing God so often reflects the moral assumptions of the ancient cultures that produced it. Slavery. The treatment of women. Divinely commanded violence. Sabbath laws. Different moral standards across different biblical texts. For me, the question became much bigger than whether I could find an explanation for each difficult passage. If God is ultimately
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