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The Mystery of Christ: … and Why We Don’t Get It is unavailable, but you can change that!

Widely recognized as a creative, insightful writer, Robert Farrar Capon offers still more of his uniquely provocative fare in The Mystery of Christ … and Why We Don’t Get It. This engaging book probes the meaning of salvation—peace, forgiveness, grace, reconciliation—spoken of in the New Testament as a “mystery.” Reminding his readers—sometimes in startling ways—that salvation is a gift rather...

all any notion that God has made sinlessness on our part a condition of his grace. So the theological upshot of all this is pretty much a draw. If homosexual acts are sinful, you’re still not allowed to run around pretending that God can’t or won’t forgive homosexual persons unless they abstain from such acts; and if they’re not sinful, but still repugnant to you, you’re not allowed by common decency to make your tastes the standard for other people’s behavior. Either way, your first duty is to love
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