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Is God Mean?
Finding God’s Loving Motives in the Bible’s Most Brutal Stories
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The Bible’s hardest questions
Slavery, suffering, the flood, hell and more
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The Beautiful Truth Behind the Bible Verses We Fear
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About the book
Are you or someone you love struggling with hard questions about God?
Find real answers in Is God Mean?
How could a loving God flood the whole earth, including women and children? How could He send people to eternal torment for temporal mistakes? Did God really command genocide in the Old Testament? What about the slavery, misogyny, and polygamy He seems to ignore, or even endorse? Why doesn’t He end pain and suffering in the world?
If these questions have been lurking in the back of your mind, or someone you love is wrestling with them and you haven’t known what to say, this book is for you. Is God Mean? shows that the love of God is the central feature of both the Old and New Testaments by uncovering the loving motives behind His seemingly harsh actions.
Why I wrote Is God Mean?
When my friends began deconstructing their faith, they started asking me the hard questions. Unfortunately, back then, I didn’t know the answers, and my responses were weak. A lot of the pat answers and popular perspectives I found in mainstream apologetics circles just didn’t cut it, and some of my friends ended up leaving the faith because they said the God of the Bible was mean.
After that, I spent the next ten years researching, diving deep into history, archaeology, and the original languages of the Bible to find real answers. I found them, and Is God Mean? is the book I wish I’d had when my friends were searching. Now I’m more secure and confident in my faith and the love of God than I’ve ever been, and I want to pass that gift along to you.
Chris Ulery
Do not be afraid of the truth. You will not be disappointed by it, but liberated in the most beautiful way.
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Is God Mean?
Finding God’s Loving Motives in the Bible’s Most Brutal Stories
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I listened to and read so many pastors and scholars with years and years of education and experience but they couldn’t explain these things.
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In this series, Chris tackles the hardest Scriptures that often go unexplained, from the flood to the conquest of Canaan, giving faith-building answers to the lurking questions many believers have struggled to shake.
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