How could a good and holy God create a world that is in such a mess? As I stud ed the Old Testament, I was also bothered by the stories about God's ordering the slaughter of women and children, of God's killing Uzzah instantly for touching the ark of the covenant, and by other narratives that seemed to reveal a brutal side to the character of God. How could I ever come to love such a God?
The one concept, the central idea I kept meeting in Scripture, was the idea that God is holy.
