Description: Accusations against the character of God, the patriarchs, the matriarchs, the prophets, and Peter. We will address only those objections regarding God, which encompass 33 items. While not necessarily endorsing any of the remaining material, we would point out that no one doubts that many humans of the Bible did immoral things. The bottom line is that our subject uses these human miscues as little more than an occasion to spout venom. No one suggests, for example, that we ought to read aloud in Sunday School to children the story of Lot and his daughters; no more so would we expose a child of suggested age to the evening news. Likewise, obviously, such instances of human imperfection are described in the Bible not for emulation, but for education, just as is the case for similar descriptions in secular history books. I daresay our subject would accuse the OT and NT writers of whitewashing had every person in the Bible emerged as an angel.

Following 1 1/2 pages of non-specific polemic, we get down to what are supposedly "the most glaring examples" of defects in God's character.

1. Is. 45:7, Lam. 3:38

2. 2 Chron. 18:22

3. 1 Sam. 16:1-2

4. Gen. 2:17