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8. Dershowitz believes deeply that the Bible is divinely inspired, but arrives at a view of God considerably different from the usual definition.
“…Dershowitz has written a thoughtful, provocative book about the violence and trickery that run through the Book of Genesis. The basic stories all figure in ''The Genesis of Justice'': Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Noah and the Flood, Abraham and Isaac, Sodom and Gomorrah, Jacob and Esau, Joseph and his brothers.
Across Genesis, as man's moral sense slowly evolves, Dershowitz continues, God is also learning -- to teach as well as to threaten, and to condemn individual sinners rather than scourging all mankind. The temptations and passions of the patriarchs explain the laws laid down at Sinai: ''The genesis of justice,'' Dershowitz concludes, with a deceptively playful pun, ''is in the narratives of injustice found in the Book of Genesis.''
The Genesis of Justice”
“……God is also learning…..”
Is this a possible addition to our definition of God?????
“…Dershowitz has written a thoughtful, provocative book about the violence and trickery that run through the Book of Genesis. The basic stories all figure in ''The Genesis of Justice'': Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Noah and the Flood, Abraham and Isaac, Sodom and Gomorrah, Jacob and Esau, Joseph and his brothers.
Across Genesis, as man's moral sense slowly evolves, Dershowitz continues, God is also learning -- to teach as well as to threaten, and to condemn individual sinners rather than scourging all mankind. The temptations and passions of the patriarchs explain the laws laid down at Sinai: ''The genesis of justice,'' Dershowitz concludes, with a deceptively playful pun, ''is in the narratives of injustice found in the Book of Genesis.''
The Genesis of Justice”
“……God is also learning…..”
Is this a possible addition to our definition of God?????