Tag: N.T. Wright
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Richard Dawkins calls this a ‘disgraceful story’
Imagine if someone told you that a deity they worshipped wanted them to sacrifice their child. You’d get social services involved, pronto. So what are we to make of the Genesis story of Abraham preparing to sacrifice the son he loved, Isaac? In The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins argued that this “disgraceful story” is an…
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What should we make of ‘the wrath of God’?
In the modern hymn, In Christ Alone, we sing that “The wrath of God was satisfied” (on the cross). But some Christians have objected to the phrase, believing that it should be softened or the the phrase takes away the focus from the big idea that God is love. The team behind a Presbyterian hymn…
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The perfect pairing for Leviticus
Leviticus had to be the least read book of the bible, I thought. After all, it’s a book of regulations aimed at citizens of Israel, with detailed rules about how to diagnose infections such as skin diseases and the different types of sacrifices. Modern Christians don’t have to bother with that sort of stuff –…