to live in a care-taking relationship with one’s environment and fellow creatures, modeling the care of the Creator. Early humans decide they don’t want to live within these creaturely limits, and soon they develop various notions of violent gods that sanction and animate their violent societies. Faith in a god who loves all people begins to emerge slowly and fitfully, three steps forward and two steps back. In this ongoing conversation, Jesus appears, and he invites his contemporaries to imagine something bigger than God as currently understood. What could be bigger than God, you ask?7 Jesus
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