Bryan Neuschwander’s Reviews > The Crucifixion of the Warrior God: Interpreting the Old Testament’s Violent Portraits of God in Light of the Cross, Volume 1 & 2 > Status Update

"...in a world populated by free agents whose choices genuinely influence what comes to pass, and in which God works by means of influence rather than coercion, one simply cannot infer what God is up to on the basis of what transpires."

...John's revision [in the book of Revelation] of traditional warfare imagery, with its stunning reassessment of power, "is so contrary to normal human practice that most churches throughout history have not agreed with John" (citing Steven Friesen).

"...the NT does not present Jesus as merely revealing an aspect of what God is like, as though we need to supplement this revelation with everything else we find in the Bible. Jesus is rather presented as the one and only Son who is, in contrast to all revelations that preceded him, the 'very radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of God's being' (Heb. 3:1)."