Dec 16, 2019: God’s Own Two Hands

Robert E. Webber

Evil is not simply the absence of good, nor is it merely erroneous choice. Evil is revolt, disobedience, resistance. It is a human (and demonic) refusal to carry out God’s purposes in history. It is a deliberate, intentional and violent rejection of God. . . . God’s goal in history, so to speak, is to win back his world by his own two hands—the incarnate Word and the Holy Spirit—and to unite humanity with the community of God. His original creational purpose will be fulfilled at the end of history.


-Robert Webber, Who Gets to Narrate the World? Contending for the Christian Story in an Age of Rivals (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2008), 29.

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Alumni Director, Practicum Professor, and DWS graduate.

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