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Is God “Just”? Is God “Fair”?

February 28, 2014 by Gary Neal Hansen Leave a Comment

One key objection people bring to Christian faith, especially to classical Western theology, is that the very idea of God punishing people rankles. Somewhere in our intuition it just feels unfair, I guess. We don’t really want anything to do with a God who seems unjust — but the system of justice seems to require […]

Filed Under: Heidelberg Catechism, Theology Tagged With: Epic Drama, Fairness, heidelberg catechism, Justice, Punishment, Wrath

Courtroom Drama: Why You Need Jesus to Be Human (Heidelberg Catechism Q. 16)

February 21, 2014 by Gary Neal Hansen Leave a Comment

When you go to a movie you play a little trick on yourself. It is called “suspension of disbelief.” For about an hour and a half you watch in terror as asteroids smash the earth, or dolls transform themselves into monsters. You cheer for the hero — even when that hero is striving to do […]

Filed Under: Faith, Heidelberg Catechism, Theology Tagged With: Drama of salvation, heidelberg catechism, Jesus, Mediator, Substitutionary atonement

Get Out of Debt God’s Way (Heidelberg Catechism Q. 13)

February 3, 2014 by Gary Neal Hansen Leave a Comment

Most of us know what it is like to carry a burden of debt. College and grad school cost a bundle. A house and a car have most us making payments. Credit cars seduce us to buy now and pay later. That is an everyday scenario in our consumer society. How are we going to […]

Filed Under: Heidelberg Catechism, Theology Tagged With: Debts, Heidelberg, heidelberg catechism, Punishment, Sins, Wrath

3 Reasons You and I Need God to Go to Bat for Us

January 29, 2014 by Gary Neal Hansen Leave a Comment

In several posts on the Trinity I have talked about the Christian claim that Jesus, born of Mary, is really truly God — the eternal Second Person of the Trinity walking among us. In our time is that not a very strange claim? With our current mish-mosh of scientific and post-modern assumptions, will people be able […]

Filed Under: Heidelberg Catechism, Theology Tagged With: Christ's human nature, Christology, heidelberg catechism, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Mediator

Who Do You Say He Is? Christ the Mediator

January 23, 2014 by Gary Neal Hansen Leave a Comment

One of the most important questions Jesus ever asked was “But who do you say that I am?” In Matthew, Mark and Luke this is his follow-up after asking his disciples what the crowds said about him. Everyone who tries to figure out what to do about Christianity has to ask this same question. We […]

Filed Under: Heidelberg Catechism, Theology Tagged With: Christ Pantokrator, Christianity, Christology, God Jesus, heidelberg catechism, Jesus, Trinity, Who do you say that I am?

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