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4514045Seeking Peace & Justicehttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/seeking-peace---justice-9781973652205/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/4223915/4b11a93e-1c7a-4b8f-8e8d-47198638a86a.jpg?v=638446522033200000104116MXNWestBow PressInStock/Ebooks/<p>If inner peace and a sense of justice come only from God [Proverbs 29:26; Shadrach et al. vs. Nebuchadnezzar, Daniel 3] and we yearn for both when in conflict, why do we not appropriate them from God when in conflict? 1 John 4:18 suggests it is because we stand paralyzed in fear, for our love is not fully mature. But how can that be true for a forgiven believerunless our image of God is not correct?</p><p>The author argues that our fear flows from an image of God as an angry judge, judging us from his Torah, a penal code of crime and punishment. But why do we think that when Christ on the cross wipes our sins away and gives us a spirit of sonship? [Romans 8:15]. Do we think it because we think our thousand-year Western legal tradition is biblically based and we subconsciously read it into Torah? What if that premise is wrong? After all, Torah originally meant instructions or teachings, not law.</p><p>Mr. Bontrager reexamines the nature of God and his Word in view of Torah as a gracious gift of instructions to people blinded by sin, living in a fallen world, offered to us by God to guide us in working through conflict according to his ways, thereby finding peace and justice [Psalm 119].</p>...4351869Seeking Peace & Justice104116https://www.gandhi.com.mx/seeking-peace---justice-9781973652205/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/4223915/4b11a93e-1c7a-4b8f-8e8d-47198638a86a.jpg?v=638446522033200000InStockMXN99999DIEbook9781973652205_W3siaWQiOiJmNDBjZDJlZS1kNWZjLTRlYTItYmEyMy00NjM5MjU5NWU5ODYiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjEyMywiZGlzY291bnQiOjEyLCJzZWxsaW5nUHJpY2UiOjExMSwiaW5jbHVkZXNUYXgiOnRydWUsInByaWNlVHlwZSI6Ildob2xlc2FsZSIsImN1cnJlbmN5IjoiTVhOIiwiZnJvbSI6IjIwMjUtMDYtMTFUMjA6MDA6MDBaIiwidG8iOiIyMDI1LTA2LTMwVDIzOjU5OjU5WiIsInJlZ2lvbiI6Ik1YIiwiaXNQcmVvcmRlciI6ZmFsc2V9LHsiaWQiOiJjNjA4ZTZiOS0yOTJjLTQxYWQtOWQ5OS0wMWI1MDg2MjZlZmYiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjExNiwiZGlzY291bnQiOjEyLCJzZWxsaW5nUHJpY2UiOjEwNCwiaW5jbHVkZXNUYXgiOnRydWUsInByaWNlVHlwZSI6Ildob2xlc2FsZSIsImN1cnJlbmN5IjoiTVhOIiwiZnJvbSI6IjIwMjUtMDctMDFUMDA6MDA6MDBaIiwicmVnaW9uIjoiTVgiLCJpc1ByZW9yZGVyIjpmYWxzZX1d9781973652205_<p>If inner peace and a sense of justice come only from God Proverbs 29:26; Shadrach et al. vs. Nebuchadnezzar, Daniel 3 and we yearn for both when in conflict, why do we not appropriate them from God when in conflict? 1 John 4:18 suggests it is because we stand paralyzed in fear, for our love is not fully mature. But how can that be true for a forgiven believerunless our image of God is not correct?</p><p>The author argues that our fear flows from an image of God as an angry judge, judging us from his Torah, a penal code of crime and punishment. But why do we think that when Christ on the cross wipes our sins away and gives us a spirit of sonship? Romans 8:15. Do we think it because we think our thousand-year Western legal tradition is biblically based and we subconsciously read it into Torah? What if that premise is wrong? After all, Torah originally meant instructions or teachings, not law.</p><p>Mr. Bontrager reexamines the nature of God and his Word in view of Torah as a gracious gift of instructions to people blinded by sin, living in a fallen world, offered to us by God to guide us in working through conflict according to his ways, thereby finding peace and justice Psalm 119.</p>(*_*)9781973652205_<p>If inner peace and a sense of justice come only from God [Proverbs 29:26; Shadrach et al. vs. Nebuchadnezzar, Daniel 3] and we yearn for both when in conflict, why do we not appropriate them from God when in conflict? 1 John 4:18 suggests it is because we stand paralyzed in fear, for our love is not fully mature. But how can that be true for a forgiven believerunless our image of God is not correct?</p><p>The author argues that our fear flows from an image of God as an angry judge, judging us from his Torah, a penal code of crime and punishment. But why do we think that when Christ on the cross wipes our sins away and gives us a spirit of sonship? [Romans 8:15]. Do we think it because we think our thousand-year Western legal tradition is biblically based and we subconsciously read it into Torah? What if that premise is wrong? After all, Torah originally meant instructions or teachings, not law.</p><p>Mr. Bontrager reexamines the nature of God and his Word in view of Torah as a gracious gift of instructions to people blinded by sin, living in a fallen world, offered to us by God to guide us in working through conflict according to his ways, thereby finding peace and justice [Psalm 119].</p>...9781973652205_WestBow Presslibro_electonico_4b053886-b1f5-3642-9d96-e1aeab5a9482_9781973652205;9781973652205_9781973652205