“Sin is not about the personal imperfection of the self. Rather, sin is any act that breaks any of the relationships God declared very good in the beginning.”
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“This is the promise of Genesis 1. The darkness is limited by the light. Suffering is not in perpetuity. The light may take generations to come, but it will come. There is always hope.”
― The Very Good Gospel: How Everything Wrong Can Be Made Right
― The Very Good Gospel: How Everything Wrong Can Be Made Right
“In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death. I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever approaching thunder, which will destroy us too, I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquility will return again.”
― The Diary of a Young Girl
― The Diary of a Young Girl
“At the heart of the very good news of the gospel is the reversal of the Fall. With that reversal, Jesus’s death and resurrection paved the way for patriarchy to be crushed. This made way for the full acknowledgment of the image of God in women and men.”
― The Very Good Gospel: How Everything Wrong Can Be Made Right
― The Very Good Gospel: How Everything Wrong Can Be Made Right
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”
― Fox Creek
― Fox Creek
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