Anybody who sets himself the task of acquitting God from the charge of being a “moral monster” has his work cut out for him. Paul Copan knows this, but in his attempt to acquit God he seems to be standing at the bottom of a pit wielding a shovel. How do you get out of a hole with that tool?
The pit, of course, was dug by the New Atheists, and the shovel represents Copan's biblical counter arguments against their charges of Yahweh’s moral repugnance.
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