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The Human Faces of God: What Scripture Reveals When It Gets God Wrong (and Why Inerrancy Tries to Hide It). By Thorn Stark. Pasadena, Calif.: Wipf and Stock, 2010. 268 pp. $29.00 (paper).
Sometimes the Bible is wrong. Sometimes it contradicts itself. Sometimes the God of the Bible does not even seem worthy of praise. He commands genocide (Deut. 7:1-2) and condones slavery (Ex. 21:2-6). Many Christians have concluded that their Bible is less than perfect. But how can we maintain our faith if this is the case? Most Christians ignore the Bible's flaws. They are the seeds that fall on rocky places, sprout quickly, but wither under outside scrutiny. Some Christians earnestly investigate the Bible but become disillusioned when they first discover these flaws. They are the seeds that fall in thorns and abandon Christianity. The Human Faces of God confronts the Bible's flaws head on. It is the good soil.
Many authors have confronted these challenges, and Stark does not pretend to offer new scholarly insights. Instead, Human Faces is a survey of the latest...