{"id":6769,"date":"2011-11-07T12:44:05","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T17:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/?p=6769"},"modified":"2011-11-07T12:51:37","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T17:51:37","slug":"god-as-smiter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/god-as-smiter\/","title":{"rendered":"God as Smiter"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6770\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6770\" style=\"width: 843px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/god-the-father.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6770\" title=\"god-the-father\" src=\"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/god-the-father.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"843\" height=\"950\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/god-the-father.jpg 843w, https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/god-the-father-350x394.jpg 350w, https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/god-the-father-266x300.jpg 266w, https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/god-the-father-532x600.jpg 532w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 843px) 100vw, 843px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6770\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob...perhaps putting the smite on someone.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>On Wednesday, I have something special for ya&#8217;ll.<\/strong> My interview with David Lamb will be posted. It&#8217;s one of the most interesting interviews I&#8217;ve ever done. In his new book, he covers <em>smiting, among other things<\/em>. It&#8217;s called <strong>God Behaving Badly: Is the God of the Old Testament Angry, Sexist and Racist?<\/strong><em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&amp;bc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;fc1=000000&amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;t=thbloflicode-20&amp;o=1&amp;p=8&amp;l=as4&amp;m=amazon&amp;f=ifr&amp;ref=ss_til&amp;asins=0830838260\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In advance of this \u00fcber cool post, I want to throw out something to chew on.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What bothers you most about God? <\/strong> Just be honest. Maybe nothing does, or maybe you think he smites people recklessly in the Old Testament accounts. Maybe you think he has Anger Management Issues&#8230; whatever it is, let&#8217;s hear it.<\/p>\n<p>Then we&#8217;ll tackle (or <em>approach<\/em> might be the more accurate word) at least some of those things this week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also, feel free to check out these related previous posts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/is.gd\/cu2YRF\" target=\"_blank\">The Man Upstairs Fallacy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/is.gd\/Mamjh0\" target=\"_blank\">Confusing God with the dad you got <\/a>(Also features <strong>best<\/strong> &#8220;worst dad&#8221; photo. seriously.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/is.gd\/Lo6Rwu\" target=\"_blank\">God with a Spatula<\/a> (Does God <em>spank<\/em> us?)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/God-Behaving-Badly-Testament-Sexist\/product-reviews\/0830838260\/ref=cm_cr_dp_hist_4?ie=UTF8&amp;showViewpoints=0&amp;filterBy=addFourStar\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0My personal review of David Lamb&#8217;s <em>God Behaving Badly<\/em> (at amazon)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What bothers you about God?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[214,6,649,5274,5282,24,1428,1472,5281,5284,1974,2399,5283,85],"class_list":["post-6769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","tag-anger","tag-bible","tag-christian","tag-david-lamb","tag-doubting","tag-fear","tag-genocide","tag-god","tag-god-behaving-badly","tag-killing","tag-law","tag-old-testament","tag-smite","tag-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6769"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6785,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6769\/revisions\/6785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}