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A field in Canaan confirms the character of God & man

The chapter begins with the silence of God, but that yields to the kind of creative speech that can only belong to God: He will return to Sarah the time of life. But the elderly couple? They must learn to say less—or perhaps speak differently, and that in agreement to what God has spoken.

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Commentary & Exposition

- 1 Corinthians
- 1 Corinthians 15:12-34

Conceiving a Fiction

Paul asks his readers to imagine the circumstances were the Christian account actually mistaken

As others have remarked before, this is an extraordinary argument. Paul, in fact, asks his reader to conceive of the resurrection’s fact as if it were a fiction. This is an uncommon kind of argument, for it gives up the ground upon which so much rhetoric is finally made to depend—the strong, emotional sentiments that are sometimes made to stand in the absence (or refusal) of facts.

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Reflections (& Refractions)

Refitting an Analogy

Jesus Christ makes the mercy of God apprehensible

In other words, justice and mercy may exist together, and we are not left to the precarious balance in which government bureaucrats must balance the two principles. They each and simultaneously find their source and definition in the very character of God.

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Select Quotations

Underneath a Varnish

The nature of man & his sin

"When the evolutionists understand all these terrible situations to be atavism, to be the outworking of an animal-like past, then they undermine the concept of sin, turn wickedness into a sickness, change the sense of guilt into an illusion, turn prisons into hospitals, and they thereby do an injustice to the animal world. For animals do not live as people often live with and among each other."

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