Emphasis Preaching Journal
When the tenants killed the...
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When the tenants killed the son, hoping to get his inheritance, they thought that they would become the masters of the house. From the Fall in the Garden, this has been the quest of humanity -- to become like God. It is like what Wiley, the one-legged poet laureate of the comic strip B.C., writes:
... Man has had no trouble at all
believing that he can be God.
How he would do this I cannot conceive
Tho, he certainly thinks that he can
-- and yet, he cannot bring himself to believe,
That God can become ... a man.
-- Molldrem
... Man has had no trouble at all
believing that he can be God.
How he would do this I cannot conceive
Tho, he certainly thinks that he can
-- and yet, he cannot bring himself to believe,
That God can become ... a man.
-- Molldrem