As I write some more personal statements of faith for college (a seemingly endless task), I am struck again by Douglas John Hall's words...
"Ironically, those who most complain of God's failure to act godlike, that is, to exercise unmitigated power, are the very ones who are most affronted by any curtailment of their own freedom...
...If we posit a God who both wills the existence of free creatures and the preservation and redemption of the world, then we must take with great seriousness the biblical narrative of a God whose providence is a mysterious internal and intentional involvement in history; a God therefore, who is obliged by his own love to exercise his power quietly, subtly, and usually, responsively in relation to the always ambiguous and frequently evil deeds of the free creatures; a God who will not impose rectitude upon the world but labor to bring existing wrong into the service of the good; a God, in short, who will suffer."
The Cross in Our Context: Jesus and the Suffering World, p87, 2003.
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