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There is nothing more common than for people who want to talk about God to lose interest in the people they are talking to.

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I have no interest in eliminating the tension between justice and forgiveness by taking justice off the table. Given the subtleties of sin and the persistence of evil, we would soon be living in moral anarchy and political chaos if there were no provision for justice.
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