Christian message is that God is for us; that he has declared himself on our behalf; that he has taken what Barth calls “the journey of the Son of God into the far country” so that we might know, once and for all, what his disposition is on our behalf, namely that he loves us unconditionally; and that in Jesus Christ he has declared and enacted this love and grace. To be sure, there are powers and forces of evil at work in the world, but there is nothing more powerful than the grace of God. Indeed,
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