Comedy In the pages of the New Testament, the funeral dirge accompanying the tragic plotline gets drowned out by the music accompanying the comedic plotline of reconciliation on a cosmic scale, celebrated in the hymn of Colossians 1:15–20. As the notes from this hymn ripple throughout the world, a symphony of unity replaces the cacophony of violence of Genesis 4 and 6. Swords get beaten into ploughshares, tribal hostilities cease.272 In the pages of the Old Testament, humanity breaks faith with God, but God renews his peace treaty.273 Using language comfortable to mystics, the Bible imagines
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