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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...

Those who make them will be like them, and so will all who trust in them. (Ps. 115:8) And in the New Testament, if by the Spirit we contemplate (katoptrizō, ‘looking at as in a mirror’) Christ we shall be transformed into his likeness from one degree of glory to the next (2 Cor. 3:18).7 In his argument for the necessity for atonement, Anselm famously says to Boso, ‘You have not yet considered what a heavy weight sin is.’8 To which may be added, ‘You have not yet considered who God is as scripturally
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