Miroslav Volf writes, “A non-indignant God would be an accomplice in injustice, deception, and violence.”54 Perhaps the reason we have trouble with this is that we are ourselves accomplices. Yet most people will say at some point that their “blood boils”; the question then becomes, what is the boiling temperature?55 If our blood does not boil at injustice, how can we be serving the God who said the following through his prophet Isaiah? Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my
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