Christian Author: The Bible Contains Terrible Things in Order to Teach Us How to Wrestle with Moral Questions

Christian author Derek Flood recently tackled a subject that we often see raised in atheist circles: if the Bible is supposed to provide moral guidance, why is it filled with terrible, immoral commands and acts ascribed to God? And his approach is a rather good example of how inventive we humans can be when it comes to preserving respect for an idea or belief that really doesn’t merit it.

Flood begins in a straightforward fashion. Unlike many apologists, he doesn’t try to sugarcoat the slavery...