About a hundred and thirty years after Jesus, there were Christians in Rome, in Alexandria in Egypt, and in the towns around them who were asking a hard question. They loved Jesus. They read the stories about him, the same stories we read. And they read the old books of the Hebrew Bible, and they could not make the two fit.
In the old books, God told an army to kill every man, woman and child in a town. In the stories of Jesus, the Father sends rain on good people and bad people alike, and Jesus told his friends to love their enemies. How could that be the same Father?
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