Originally posted on A Young Man's Theology:
There are many reasons why skeptics choose not to believe the Bible. After all, if one can convince himself not to believe the Bible, than one can live un-beholden to the morality imposed by scripture. Many of the reasons for this disbelief are emotional, “I don’t like this” responses. Often an Old Testament story is blasted, “How can you want to follow a God who did…?” fill in the blank. With that objection in mind let’s look at one of these passages and see if we can counter the skeptics attack.
“From there Elisha went up to Bethel. As he was walking along the road, some boys came out of the town and jeered at him. “Get out of here, baldy!” they said. “Get out of here, baldy!” He turned around, looked at them and called down a curse on them in the name of the Lord. Then two bears…
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