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Andrew Wilson is teaching pastor at King’s Church London and author of Remaking the World: How 1776 Created the Post-Christian West. Follow him on Twitter @AJWTheology.
Hebrew terms for God appear across the Old Testament. The prophet Isaiah brings them all together.
We often treat these words as synonyms. In Scripture, they’re near opposites.
Isaiah Berlin’s intellectual metaphors shed light on church history—and my own theological trajectory.
In Scripture, the wicked drive technological progress. But the righteous often redeem it.
Scripture uses a wealth of images for the church. Shall one say to the other, “I have no need of you?”
They’re part of the Bible’s original text, and frequently essential to understanding it.
The four-word warning is outwardly simple. But layers of meaning lurk under the surface.
If they don’t “apologize” in the modern sense, it’s only because Scripture has a richer vocabulary of repentance.
Even before the coming of Christ, a “third day” refrain runs through Scripture.
This sounds counterintuitive. But there are biblical and cultural reasons for believing it.