Church Blogmatics by Beth Felker Jones

Church Blogmatics by Beth Felker Jones

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Church Blogmatics by Beth Felker Jones
Church Blogmatics by Beth Felker Jones
Foolish. faithless. heartless. ruthless.

Foolish. faithless. heartless. ruthless.

Romans 1:31, natural consequences, and the kind of God who wants to transform the human condition

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Gentle reader,

For years, the drumbeat of Romans 1:31 has been pounding through my mind, a poignant appraisal of the sinful human condition. In the NRSV translation, it’s just four words:

“foolish,

faithless,

heartless,

ruthless.”

That’s it for the verse. Four staccato descriptors of us humans when given over “to an unfit mind” and to doing “things that shoul…

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