It has been about three weeks since I published a post on the book I am writing, When God Pled Guilty.
In case you are wondering, I haven’t forgotten about it!
To the contrary, I have been working on it like mad! And even when I am not studying, researching, reading, and writing on the topic, I am thinking about it. As they say, “A writer is working even when he’s staring out the window.”
So why haven’t I written any posts on the book for three weeks?
It is just that… well… I ran into some snags. Or maybe I should say that I ran into A snag.
What snag is that?
The biggest snag of all… Scripture!
Ha!
I think many of you were predicting this! And no, I am NOT doing this to my Bible:
You see, up to this point in When God Pled Guilty, I have only been writing “theological theory.” I built a hypothesis that I wanted to test against Scripture. Though I have been a student of Scripture all my l life, I have always had difficulty with the violent passages in the Bible, and how to reconcile them with the loving portrait of Jesus in the Gospels. I felt that something was amiss, but could never put into words exactly what was wrong.
As we seek to learn why bad things happen in this world, we are looking at several principles of a theological 