This is the first in a two-part series dealing with the hiddenness of God. In the first talk, "Why God Hides," Ross discusses the interplay between “atonement” (covering) and “apocalypse” (uncovering) as a framework for understanding how God reveals himself…and why he hides. An article of the same title was recently published in Mere Orthodoxy. You can find more articles like this at Ross's Substack, PatientKingdom.com.
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This is the first in a two-part series dealing with the hiddenness of God. In the first talk, "Why God Hides," Ross discusses the interplay between “atonement” (covering) and “apocalypse” (uncovering) as a framework for understanding how God reveals himself…and why he hides. An article of the same title was recently published in Mere Orthodoxy. You can find more articles like this at Ross's Substack, PatientKingdom.com.
Why doesn't God just show himself? Why is he so un-straightforward? Why would Jesus say, "Ask and you shall receive?" if he didn't mean it in a straightforward way? Why did God tell Adam and Eve not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil? Didn't they at least deserve a clear explanation before they ruined the world? And besides, wouldn't he have wanted their eyes to be opened?Is Christianity a religion of clarity or confusion?Which is easier, to say to the paralytic "Your sins a...
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This is the first in a two-part series dealing with the hiddenness of God. In the first talk, "Why God Hides," Ross discusses the interplay between “atonement” (covering) and “apocalypse” (uncovering) as a framework for understanding how God reveals himself…and why he hides. An article of the same title was recently published in Mere Orthodoxy. You can find more articles like this at Ross's Substack, PatientKingdom.com.
