Chapter 16 | Quotes From Pages 152-160 1.Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God," writes Paul in Romans 11:22 (KJV). The crucial word here is 'and'. The apostle is explaining the relation between Jew and Gentile in the plan of God.
2.Never, perhaps, since Paul wrote has there been more need to labor this point than there is today.
3.To reject all ideas of divine wrath and judgment, and to assume that God's character...is really one of indulgent benevolence without any severity, is the rule rather than the exception among ordinary folk today.
4.But the Santa Claus theology, sins create no problem, and atonement becomes needless; God's active favor extends no less to those who disregard his commands than to those who keep them.
5.Yet the Santa Claus theology carries within itself the seeds of its own collapse, for it cannot cope with the fact of evil.
6.How can those who have strayed this way get back on the ScanScan toto DownloadDownload