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• in Christianity, religion is grace; ethics is gratitude. Hence Jesus’ imperatives are a word for us, but they are not like the Old Testament law. They describe the lived-out love of our new life as God’s loved and redeemed children—a love that is not optional, of course!
• The early believers, therefore, learned to be a truly eschatological people. They lived between the times—that is, between the beginning of the end and the consummation of the end. At the Lord’s Table they celebrated their eschatological existence by proclaiming “the Lord’s death until he comes” (1 Cor 11:26). Already they knew God’s free and full ...
• It seems so natural to assume that if God is in control of the world, everything that happens must be his doing, according to his will. We must remember, however, that the Scriptures do not teach us this. They teach rather that the world is fallen, corrupted by sin, and under the domination of Satan (cf. John 12:31), and that many things happen in ...