Cole Pate

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Needs his diaper changed? Human. Miraculous healing? Divine. Crying at Lazarus’s tomb? Human. Raising Lazarus from the grave? Divine. Bleeding on the cross? Human. Resurrection from the dead? Divine. This makes for a neat and tidy Christology, one that protects a piety that insists God must be beyond our troubles; but it is a heretical Christology because it denies the mercies of the God who is powerful enough to have no need of our protection and loving enough to cry, suffer, and die for our sake.
Practicing Christian Doctrine: An Introduction to Thinking and Living Theologically
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