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More great work from Richard Beck: The Children of God, Jesus concluded, should love like the sun and the rain. This--being sun and rain, loving indiscriminately--would make us children of the Creator. This would make us perfect. And this, I would argue, is the subversive notion at the heart of the worship of the Creator God. Loving like sun and rain. I dont think Israel knew this teaching was coming when she turned from idols to the worship of YHWH. I dont think Israel knew the Creator would be used by the writer of Psalm 50 to attack the heart of the sacrificial system they had created, a system of religious gate-keeping, blood and exclusion. Even less did they see the radical implication discerned by Jesus. You cant be a gate-keeper of the Creators love. No sacrifice is needed. God loves freely, generously and indiscriminately.
Posted on: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 11:37:10 +0000

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