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Two Responses to injustice:
1. This is not how it ought to be
2. Something needs to be done
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God makes “humans” in the Image of God:
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God makes “humans” in the Image of God:
1. Reflection of God’s character
2. Representative on His behalf
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God puts Adam & Eve into a
garden to build a new world
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Sin enters the world and humans
are naked and ashamed
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Sin enters the world and humans
are naked and ashamed
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Sin gets worse in each successive generation
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Sin gets worse in each successive generation
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The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great
in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts
of his heart was only evil continually. And the Lord
regretted that he had made man on the earth, and
it grieved him to his heart.
Genesis 6:5–6
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So the Lord said, “I will blot out man whom I have
created from the face of the land, man and animals
and creeping things and birds of the heavens, for I
am sorry that I have made them.” But Noah found
favour in the eyes of the Lord.
Genesis 6:7–8
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“it grieved him to his heart”
=
“deep unfulfilled longing”
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For the Lord has called you, like
a wife deserted and grieved in spirit
Isaiah 54:6
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“The tears of God are the meaning of history”
Nicholas Wolterstorff
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Disbelief in a judging God has 2 problems:
1. Intellectual Problem
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“In reality, there are no basic human rights. Mankind
created them. They are conventions we agree to
abide by for our mutual protection under law.”
Robert Jarvik
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“We have no more basic rights than viruses,
other than those that we create for ourselves
through our intellect.”
Robert Jarvik
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Disbelief in a judging God has 2 problems:
1. Intellectual Problem
2. Social Problem
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“Violence thrives today, secretly nourished
by the belief that God refuses to take the sword.
My thesis is that the practice of non-violence
requires a belief in divine vengeance”
Miroslav Volf
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Do not take revenge, but leave room for God’s
wrath, for it is written: “It is mine to avenge;
I will repay,” says the Lord.
Romans 12:19
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God’s Blueprint:1. Send a saviour
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But Noah found favour in the eyes of the Lord (…)
But I will establish my covenant with you, and you
shall come into the ark, you, your sons, your wife,
and your sons' wives with you.
Genesis 6:8,18
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Then the Lord said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you
and all your household, for I have seen that you are
righteous before me in this generation.”
Genesis 7:1
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Noah’s family is saved not based
on their own righteousness but
on Noah’s righteousness
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God’s Blueprint:1. Send a saviour
2. Send a flood
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In the six hundredth year of Noah's life,
in the second month, on the seventeenth day
of the month, on that day all the fountains of
the great deep burst forth, and the windows
of the heavens were opened.
Genesis 7:11–12, 17–23
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And rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty
nights. The flood continued forty days on the earth.
The waters increased and bore up the ark, and it
rose high above the earth.
Genesis 7:11–12, 17–23
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The waters prevailed and increased greatly on
the earth, and the ark floated on the face of the
waters. And the waters prevailed so mightily on
the earth that all the high mountains under the
whole heaven were covered.
Genesis 7:11–12, 17–23
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The waters prevailed above the mountains,
covering them fifteen cubits deep. And all
flesh died that moved on the earth, birds,
livestock, beasts, all swarming creatures
that swarm on the earth, and all mankind.
Genesis 7:11–12, 17–23
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Everything on the dry land in whose nostrils was the
breath of life died. He blotted out every living thing
that was on the face of the ground, man and animals
and creeping things and birds of the heavens.
Genesis 7:11–12, 17–23
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They were blotted out from the earth. Only Noah
was left, and those who were with him in the ark.
Genesis 7:11–12, 17–23
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The flood is salvation THROUGH judgement
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When God's patience waited in the days
of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in
which a few, that is, eight persons, were
brought safely through water.
Genesis 7:11–12, 17–23
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God’s Blueprint:1. Send a saviour
2. Send a flood
3. Send a bow
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This is the sign of the covenant that I make between
me and you and every living creature that is with
you, for all future generations: I have set my bow in
the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the covenant
between me and the earth.
Genesis 9:12-16
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When I bring clouds over the earth and the bow is
seen in the clouds, I will remember my covenant that
is between me and you and every living creature of
all flesh. And the waters shall never again become a
flood to destroy all flesh.
Genesis 9:12-16
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When the bow is in the clouds, I will see
it and remember the everlasting covenant
between God and every living creature of
all flesh that is on the earth.
Genesis 9:12-16
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“bow” = “quesheth” = “war bow”
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Jesus committed no sin, and no deceit was
found in his mouth. When they hurled their insults
at him, he did not retaliate; when he suffered, he
made no threats. Instead, he entrusted himself to
him who judges justly.
1 Peter 3:20
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He himself bore our sins in his body on the cross, so
that we might die to sins and live for righteousness;
by his wounds you have been healed.
1 Peter 3:20
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