Coming to Terms

Pressed metaphors and other signposts
at the intersection of positive and negative theology
When we equate what is good with what makes us feel good we rely on the assumption that our desires are perfect. You cannot believe you are a sinner and yet hold up your own preferences as the standard. To admit that we need God’s grace is to abandon the idea that we know what that grace looks like.

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