Here are a number of passage lists to aid you with your study of the disturbing parts of scripture. Choose a topic below and you can be confident(ish) that it will contain all the relevant passages. Be sure to click the references and read the full context!
- Conquest of Canaan – Canaanite wickedness / corrupting influence
- Conquest of Canaan – God’s Orders
- Conquest of Canaan – Incomplete (according to the book of Joshua)
- Conquest of Canaan – Language of driving out and dispossessing
- Conquest of Canaan – Language of killing/destruction/slaughter etc.
- Conquest of Canaan – The Anakim (“the offspring of Nephilim”)
- Conquest of Canaan – What God did/said he would do
- Corpses as food for the birds and wild animals
- Dashing/Smashing of Children
- Disturbing words from the lips of Jesus
- Divine Judgement, Wrath and Violence in the New Testament
- Don’t Mess With the Ark
- Gehenna
- God approving of child sacrifice?
- God causes parents to cannibalise their own children?
- God judges people by having unborn babies ripped out of mother’s wombs?
- herem/hrm Passages
- Instructions to Slaves and their Masters in the NT Epistles
- Intergenerational Punishment
- Jeremiah
- Jesus – Insults
- Jesus and the Isaiah Scroll
- Jesus and the Temple Incident
- Lake of Fire (the second death)
- Lex Talionis
- OT Laws Concerning Slaves
- Stoning
- The Destroyer
- The Destruction of the Amalekites
- The Karet Penalty – “cut off”
- Violence in Jesus’ Parables