CATA 2025 Conference &
Public Lecture

“Divine Justice in Response to Evil and Tyranny”

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ENDS APRIL 11, 2025 APRIL 12 - MAY 23, 2025 MAY 23, 2025
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Program

7:15 PM ‑ 9:30 PM
Featuring:
Dr. William Webb and Dr. Gord Oeste
Tyndale University, Toronto

 
Topic:
Biblical War Texts
Is Yahweh a Blood-Thirsty, Genocidal God?

Free Public Lecture

with Dr. William Webb
and Dr. Gordon Oeste

Friday June 6, 2025, 7:15 ‑ 9:30 p.m.

Forestview Church
3175 Dundas St W, Oakville, ON

Biblical War Texts

Is Yahweh a Blood‑Thirsty, Genocidal God?

The “kill all” passages in the Hebrew Bible sure look like Yahweh, the God of the OT, encourages genocide—the indiscriminate slaughter of men, women, and children. . . everyone. This leaves readers with a disturbing (even horrifying) picture of God, challenging to faith and troubling to the soul. But things are not so simple. First, the total-kill language is rhetorical (hyperbole) rather than literal—a common misunderstanding. Second, a series of God portraits within subversive war texts (often overlooked) radically challenges the extreme patterns of war violence in an ancient world. Yahweh is calling his stubborn people away from war atrocities towards his enduring and higher value of shalom.