As morally revolting as these portraits of God are, if we confess Jesus to be Lord, I believe we are obliged to confess that all of them, together with the entire canon, are God-breathed. But at the same time, if we confess Jesus to be Lord, we also should feel obliged to insist that something else is going on when God’s breathing results in biblical authors ascribing such atrocities to God, for these depictions of God contradict what we learn about God in Jesus’s cross-centered life and ministry.
