Marvin reflects on the place of texts in the Bible that seem to implicate God in violence, with a little help from St. Augustine.

I’m not sure God insists that we be pacifists; I’m even less sure that God is a pacifist (as Marvin acknowledges and Miroslav Volf argues). But there are still passages in the Bible that show God in a pretty nasty light, even by “just war” standards.