who heard it. It doesn’t surprise me at all that Muslims would be offended by that. Orthodox Jews would also be offended, because it was a serious departure from their tradition. In fact, from the Fall throughout the Old Testament there is a history of the wall separating humankind from God because of sin. An angel with a flaming sword guarded the entrance to paradise (Gen. 3:24) to prevent us from having an intimate relationship with God. In Romans 8 Paul writes about the concept of our adoption