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Divine Blessing and the Fullness of Life in the Presence of God is unavailable, but you can change that!

The concept of blessing pervades the everyday life of Christians—from testimonies recounting God’s provision, to praise songs, to wishing someone well. In fact, the term has been so integrated into Christian language that it is rarely considered thoughtfully. In the pages of Scripture, blessing seems to be either physical or spiritual, but a fuller biblical-theological approach reveals that God’s...

three chapters of Genesis. John Walton notes, “The text has already established the blessing as the climax of chapter 1 and the objective of chapter 2. Aside from the idea of the blessing as the author’s main theme, it stands to reason that having sinned and broken their relationship with God, the natural question is: Is the blessing of chapter 1 still intact?”31 In fact, the rest of the biblical story is God’s progressive revelation answering these initial questions. And the first answer to the
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