What About Everybody Else?
The previous blog entry touched on how reading through the Bible can help answer some of the common questions about God and the Faith. One question that sometimes comes up in discussions about the Bible relates to God’s treatment of people who weren’t Hebrew. Several of the books in the New Testament are dedicated to the efforts of Paul and others to spread the Gospel to the Gentiles. Most Christians would be considered Gentiles, and that is one of the reasons why the New Testament is particularly important for us. However, many of the stories in the Old Testament involve pretty harsh treatment of the Gentiles by God or under His direction. For that reason, some might ask why God would treat Gentiles so badly even though we are all his creation. That question certainly seems valid when reading all the stories of the Israelites going to war with other peoples and killing everyone (man, woman, and ch...