Today you can listen to the fourth episode in our series ‘Does God Stand with Israel?’ This episode is available on any good podcast platform.
This series is in three parts, the first tackling the question of genocide, the question of genocide in the Hebrew Bible, and how it relates to faith today, our attitude to others, and the genocide taking place in Gaza.
Thinking and talking about genocide is a difficult thing to do, and it is even more difficult when God seems to support genocide in the book of Joshua and 1 Samuel, but great care much be taken in interpreting the meaning of these texts.
What are the consequences of genocide in Gaza? What is happening in this conflict and how can we understand it from a Christian perspective? What do the genocide accounts of the Hebrew Bible tell us today about the identity of God?