When God Seems Like A Moral Monster: God-Ordained Violence in the Bible | Chilliwack Campus

Deuteronomy 20:16-18 As we embark on our summer series called My Weird & Wonderful Bible, this sermon addresses a common difficulty people have with the Old Testament: The number of texts where God instructs the Israelites to completely eradicate the Canaanites from the Promised Land. The key questions at hand are, 1. Is this Divinely mandated “Ethnic Cleansing”?; 2. Why does the God of the Old Testament seem so different from the God of the New Testament? This sermon will seek to address these questions and how God-ordained violence in the Bible fits into redemptive history and Good News to all nations.