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The presence of the messianic salvation is also seen in Jesus' miracles of healing, for which the Greek word meaning "to save" is used. The presence of the Kingdom of God in Jesus meant deliverance from hemorrhage (Mk 5:34), blindness (Mk 10:52), demon possession (Lk 8:36), and even death itself (Mk 5:23). Jesus claimed that these deliverances were evidences of the presence of the messianic salvation (Mt 11:4-5). They were pledges of the life of the eschatological Kingdom that will finally mean immortality for the body. The Kingdom of God is concerned not only with people’s souls but with the salvation of the whole person. ↗

— George Eldon Ladd

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No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

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Prayer without study would be empty. Study without prayer would be blind. ↗

— Karl Barth

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Like all great rationalists you believed in things that were twice as incredible as theology. ↗

— Halldór Laxness

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Any amount of theology can now be smuggled into people's minds under the cover of fiction without their knowing it. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

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I am what some would say 'holy, and wholly other than you.' The problem is that many folks try to grasp some sense of who I am by taking the best version of themselves, projecting that to the nth degree, factoring in all the goodness they can perceive, which often isn't much, and then call that God. And while it may seem like a noble effort, the truth is that it falls pitifully short of who I really am. I'm not merely the best version of you that you can think of. I am far more than that, above and beyond all that you can ask or think. ↗

— Wm. Paul Young

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One man's pornography is another man's theology. ↗

— Clive Barker

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If tribulation is a necessary element in redemption, we must anticipate that it will never cease till God sees the world to be either redeemed or no further redeemable. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

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Easter was when Hope in person surprised the whole world by coming forward from the future into the present. ↗

— N.T. Wright

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Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know. ↗

— Criss Jami

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