Have you ever been asked what the Gospel is? What did you say? Are you able to communicate what you believe?

A reader once asked me a question I hadn’t heard in several years. It’s a question I used to ask a lot when I was still an atheist: Did God kill people in the Bible? Yes, God killed a lot of people. Now what? Does that mean… …there is a God whose ways I question or disagree with? …that if God were actually real, He never would have killed so many people? Therefore, God must not be real? …that the fact that there were stories in the Bible of God striking people down for touchi