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Forgiven, Forgiving
Vol. 13, No. 2 • Mar/Apr 2004
Can God make a rock so big that he can’t lift it? Is there anything that God cannot do? According to Scripture, God cannot violate his own character. He cannot sin or tempt people to sin. And, Scripture declares, he cannot acquit the guilty. That is, he cannot just forgive-he cannot just let bygones be […]
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Something God Cannot Do
Can God make a rock so big that he can’t lift it? Is there anything that God cannot do? According to Scripture, God cannot violate his own character. He cannot sin or tempt people to sin. And, Scripture declares, he cannot acquit the guilty. That is, he cannot just forgive-he cannot just let bygones be […]
Whom Does God Forgive?
“Forgiveness.” “Redemption.” “Freedom from the soul-destroying, peace-robbing guilt of sin.” “Peace with God.” Only someone who has been truly convinced of sin can even start to understand the excitement of these words. But who receives divine forgiveness? Human religions put a price on forgiveness, a very high price. Holding it out like the proverbial carrot […]
“After Such Knowledge, What Forgiveness?”
Out of the deep have I called unto thee, O Lord: Lord, hear my voice. April is the cruellest month, breedingLilacs out of the dead land, mixingMemory and desire, stirringDull roots with spring rain.Winter kept us warm, coveringEarth in forgetful snow, feedingA little life with dried tubers. Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St. Louis, […]
Remembering the Resurrection
In history, only twenty or so people in succession separate us from the eyewitnesses to Jesus’ Resurrection. Wendell Berry, in his novel Jayber Crow, has Jayber, an aging village barber, reminisce: History grows shorter. I remember old men who remembered the Civil War. I have in my mind word-of-mouth memories more than a hundred years […]
The Freedom of Forgiveness
Precious few seem alarmed by the amount of pain and anger that has emerged over the last thirty years in the hearts of adult children of divorce. In the United States alone, one out of every four adults under the age of forty comes from a broken family. No matter what was said by our […]
Why Should God Forgive Your Sins?
If you were to ask evangelicals, “Why should God forgive your sins?,” you would probably receive several answers. Most would probably say, “God forgives me because he loves me.” But others might reply, “God forgives me because I repented of all known sins.” And still others might answer, “God forgives me because I prayed the […]
