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"Ultimately, the answer to the problem of pain is on the cross. When Jesus hung on the cross, he did more that take the penalty for our sins; he identified fully with our pain." 

"God's creation of the world was an act of love. Because God has always existed as a Trinity, he is complete in himself nd does not need an outside object either to love him or to be loved by him. Still, out of love, he made a world separate from himslef. But that act of love, great as it is, is nothing compared to the love God demonstrated in the incarnation.

"There can be no ultimate justice or injustice in a purely Darwinian world, for there can be no standard to measure it by."

"The virgin birth is more than a miracle. It was the gateway through which God came to us." 

"Christianity need not cut us off from the natural world. As long as we do not worship nature herself, as long as we recognize that nature is not our mother but our elder, equally fallen sister, we can learn to live lives of greater harmony and balance. God created us to be stewards of nature. We are to rule over her, not to allow her to rule over us, but we are to do so by tending and caring for her." 

"...from the point of view of God, when a man and a woman have sex, they truly do become one flesh. Sex is not just a physical act; it has a metaphysical dimension as well that transcends the natural, material world. It is never just sex; the union goes much deeper that that."

"Sex must be confined to marriage, not because it is something dirty or bestial that we should be ashamed of but because it is good and beautiful and holy"