Critics have claimed the Conquest of Canaan is an example of divinely commanded genocide or ethnic cleansing. In my latest podcast episode (#193), I argue that the rationale for the Conquest had nothing to do with race or ethnicity, and is not an example of genocide. It was not an ethnic cleansing, but a moral cleansing of the land. It was mass capital punishment on those who were guilty of gross immorality. And it’s not even true that everyone was killed. God was more concerned about expelling the Canaanites from the land and destroying their religious influence on the Israelites than He was in killing the Canaanites.
Listen wherever you get podcasts, or at https://www.buzzsprout.com/1958918/episodes/18744936.
A lot of people – both Christians and non-Christians alike – see a vast difference between the way God is portrayed in the Old Testament vs. the New Testament. Some have claimed that it’s two different gods, while others think of it more like a conversion experience of the same God: The judgmental, wrathful God of the OT became the merciful, loving God of the NT. Such views of the Biblical God are based on a cherry-picking of the Biblical data. In my latest podcast episode, I demonstrate that we find a God of both love and justice in both testaments.
Christians and Jews believe the God of the Bible is morally good. Many non-believers, however, think otherwise. They claim the God of Christianity is morally evil, and thus no God at all. So is the Biblical God the epitome of moral perfection, or a moral monster? 
Thinking to Believe 