How do Christians deal with the violence in the Bible?

No no - Faith doesn't ignore - she believes in Genocide

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quote: You are excusing genocide. You keep calling it "justice". Make no mistake, Faith, you are the one who is confused. There can never be any justification for genocide. Never.

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Sometimes there is. God says so. --http://EvC Forum: Islam does not hate christianity -->EvC Forum: Islam does not hate christianity

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Maybe the nazis were just carrying out god's work,eh?

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{EDIT: 1a) There is always a time lag between sin and punishment, cause and effect

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What's the time lag between the sins of a stillborn child and it's punishment?

So if I masterbate does this add to the level of sin in the world?So all the people in the world didn't masterbate - the Average level of sin would fall?How do we measure this?This message has been edited by Charles Knight, 30-Jul-2005 12:16 PMThis message has been edited by Charles Knight, 30-Jul-2005 12:21 PM

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Literalistic young earth creationism is an insult to God, suggesting that he would arbitrarily and capriciously break his own exquisite laws whenever it suited him. Worse, the evidence for the fact of evolution is so knockdown overwhelming that we can reconcile it with young earth creationism only by assuming that God deliberately planted false evidence, in the rocks and in the genetic molecules, to trick us. Could a cruder blasphemy be imagined? Bishop of Oxford

but why does he need to test his faith? I thought that the christian godhead was all-knowing (or was that a later tack-on by later writers?).This message has been edited by Charles Knight, 03-Aug-2005 01:50 PM

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It is a foreshadowing of God's sacrifice of His own Son

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What sacrifice? Didn't God know how that would turn out?