Basically, as I see it, in the Christian view of things this world is decidedly not as it’s supposed to be. Predation, sickness, violence, death, racism, bigotry of all types etc., etc., are not what God desires for humanity. But sin enters the world, when humans live in their own private universes—we make ourselves into gods, and don’t give two damns about the rest of the Creation. We become “kings of our little skull-sized kingdoms” as David Foster Wallace would say. Sinners. And think of sin not just as wrongdoing, but as a kind of cosmic disorderliness (the “worm at the heart of goodness” if you will). Yet God doesn’t let go. He chooses to enter into a treaty-relationship with a tribe of slaves, brings them out of slavery, and lays before them a law (His Torah), a new way of living in the world which can be summarized as: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength” and “Love your neighbor as yourself.” He brings this tribe to Ca
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