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I just had a chance to watch this video, which details a new anti-Obama merchandising campaign featuring Psalm 109:8. The campaign features bumper stickers, coffee mugs, t-shirts (like the one pictured here) and other items that say “Prayer for Obama” and then refer to Psalm 109:8. Psalm 109:8 reads as follows: May his days be few; may [...] Where does everything come to a climax? Did it happen in the last 200-300 years, as people devised and refined things like constitutional democracies, medicine, and television? Will it happen for you when you finally get that degree, or that job, or that perfect relationship? Will it happen when you get that house? That car? [...] “What the Gospels offer,” NT Wright tells us in Chapter 3, “is not a philosophical explanation of evil, what it is or why it’s there, nor a set of suggestions for how we might adjust our lifestyles so that evil will mysteriously disappear from the world, but the story of an event in which the [...] “It is better,” said Caiaphas, the High Priest in the year that Jesus died, “for one man to die than for the whole nation to perish.” This statement, John tells us, meant much more than what we hear on the surface. Credit: Baltimore Sun Chapter 2 of Evil and the Justice of God is entitled What Can God Do About Evil? It is not a question that NT Wright seeks to answer within this Chapter so-much as it is a summary of a question that repeats itself again and again throughout the Old Testament. The writers [...] |
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