Der Bibel-gott Israels Auf Der Anklagebank Nach Stgb Hubert Berghaus File

: By putting God on the "defendant's bench," Berghaus challenges theologians to reconcile the "merciful God" of modern preaching with the "wrathful and violent God" found in the scriptural texts he cites.

In his provocative book Der Bibel-Gott Israels auf der Anklagebank nach dem Strafgesetzbuch (StGB) , subjects the biblical portrayal of the deity to a modern legal "trial" based on the German Penal Code (StGB). : By putting God on the "defendant's bench,"

: Berghaus "indicts" the biblical God for numerous offenses, including incitement to war, genocide, mass murder, and crimes against humanity. He systematically lists passages from the Bible and matches them against specific paragraphs of the German StGB , such as murder (§ 211) or incitement to hatred (§ 130). He systematically lists passages from the Bible and

The book is often associated with the or similar freethinker movements in Germany. It serves more as a philosophical and ethical critique than a literal legal exercise, using the framework of the StGB to highlight what the author sees as the "inhumane" foundations of monotheistic scripture. including incitement to war