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God the Peacemaker: How Atonement Brings Shalom is unavailable, but you can change that!

In the midst of a troubled world, Christians believe in a good God who, as the Creator, has never lost interest in His broken creation. The key evidence for, and the chief symbol of, this divine commitment is the cross of Christ. This God, revealed in Scripture, has a project. Central to the divine strategy is Christ, His coming, and His cross. The troubles and calamities will end. The...

for Christ’s life and death, is predicated on grasping that the righteous God is both love and light, or, to use P. T. Forsyth’s pregnant expression, ‘holy love’.31 Holy love is not indifferent to sin. The second chapter examines the paradoxical nature of humankind outside Eden or ‘what man has become’. Taking a cue from Pascal it examines how we are both the glory and the ‘garbage’ of the universe. Some grasp of the multifaceted problematic created by human sin is a prerequisite for understanding
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