sometimes do fall but that God can and does bring us through to his glorious presence in heaven in spite of it. As for Paul, when he says that nothing “will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord” he is not closing his eyes or shutting his ears to the hostile and destructive forces that surround the Christian. On the contrary, he actually opens his arms to these forces and invites them to come forward, saying that they will never succeed in detaching us from