B Hatfield’s Reviews > The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism [ABRIDGED/AUDIO CD] [AUDIOBOOK] > Status Update

Tim Keller is going off !!! in a good way hahaha I'm so thankful

thank you Jesus!!! John 17 , "Jesus died and loves us without benefit to himself" (chapter 14)

"real forgiveness is costly suffering" - chp 12

God entered our pain! the great reversal FOR US despite our unwillingness to want to be saved

"but what if Someone who deserved endless life willingly allowed it to be cut short? what if Someone who should never have had to experience the grave endured it?"

Christ won through losing

"If he has done this for us, we can and should say the same to God and others. St. Paul writes, "the love of Christ constrains us" (2 Corinthians 5:14)."

Freedom, then, is not the absence of limitations and constraints but it is finding the right ones, those that fit our nature and liberate us. - LOVE is the most liberating freedom-loss of all"

"In the most radical way, God has adjusted to us—in his incarnation and atonement. In Jesus Christ he became a limited human being, vulnerable to suffering and death. On the cross, he submitted to our condition—as sinners— and died in our place to forgive us. In the most profound way, God has said to us, in Christ, "I will adjust to you. I will change for you. I'll serve you though it means a sacrifice for me.

"They say of some temporal suffering, "no future bliss can make up for it," not knowing Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory." - CS LEWIS

Hebrews 12:11 agaaaain
"...then you have (at the same moment) a God great and transcendent enough to have good reasons for allowing [hurt] to continue that you can't know." P.25

"Though not grateful for the tragedies themselves, several ppl would not trade the insight, character, and strength they had gotten from them for anything else."

"Jesus takes our suffering so seriously he was willing to take it on himself... everything sad is going to come untrue and it will somehow be greater for having once been broken and lost" WOW

"help thou unbelief!" For believers and for skeptics

"I realized that my achievements were ultimately unsatisfying, the approval of man is fleeting, that a Carpe diem life lived solely for adventure is a form of narcissism and idolatry. And so I became a believer in Christ."