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1. Question: How can one approach reconciling confusing, seemingly disturbing, or otherwise troubling texts from the scriptures?
2. Question: How can one reconcile scriptures in the Bible that appear to endorse genocide, pillage, and/or plunder?
3. Question: Why does God act so violently in scripture and especially the Old Testament?
4. Question: What is the best way to understand servitude in the Old and New Testaments?
5. Question: Did God endorse rape in the Old Testament?
6. Question: Why would Elisha have two she-bears maul 42 children?
7. Question: Why are Old Testament penalties for disobedience so harsh?
8. JPS Torah Commentary: Deuteronomy: "Filial insubordination is a grave offense because respect and obedience toward parents is regarded as the cornerstone of all order and authority"
9. Question: Why would a loving God would kill innocent children in the flood of Noah's day?
10. Question: Why would a loving God kill the firstborn of Egypt?
11. Elder Jeffery R. Holland: "it is a characteristic of our age that if people want any gods at all, they want them to be gods who do not demand much"
12. Question: Why would God send poisonous serpents to kill the Children of Israel?
13. Joseph Fielding Smith: "This was also in the similitude of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ"
14. Question: Did Nephi commit "cold blooded murder" when he killed Laban?
15. Question: Why didn't God simply preserve Nephi's life using divine power instead of requiring him to kill Laban?
16. Jeffery R. Holland: "It is wrong to assume that Nephi in any way wished to take Laban’s life"
17. Question: Are the scriptures misogynistic/sexist?
18. Question: Do the scriptures promote racism?
19. Question: Does the Bible endorse human sacrifice?
20. Question: Do the scriptures endorse child abuse?
21. Question: Do the scriptures endorse murder?