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Reading Scripture Like a Novel: Plot, Part 2

The great plot conflict of Scripture is the battle for kingship of earth, a battle between the serpent and the woman’s offspring.  Hostility between these two parties was promised by God (Gen. 3:15), and throughout the Old Testament physical violence and hostility ensued. The Israelites committed genocide against the Canaanites (as to why God wouldContinue reading “Reading Scripture Like a Novel: Plot, Part 2”

Humanity: Loathsome Insects, or Royal Family? Part 1 of 4

In his sermon, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” the revivalist preacher Jonathan Edwards famously compared mankind to repulsive creatures in the hands of a repulsed God. The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, andContinue reading “Humanity: Loathsome Insects, or Royal Family? Part 1 of 4”