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God made peace with humanity
The fear of God’s wrath has long been used as a tool for controlling people.
“What is to become of virtue, and heaven, and—clerical power, if the fear of eternal punishment is not forever kept before men’s eyes as the prop of human and divine authority?”
— Demetrius, Bishop of Alexandria, circa 230
Yet scripture declares that God is at peace with humanity. He’s certainly not at peace with the evil perpetrated in the world, but He’s fundamentally at peace with humanity.
“God, through Christ, reconciled us to himself … God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them”
— 2 Corinthians 5:18, 19
The God who calls us to be peacemakers in the world has made peace with the world.
This post used by permission from The God I Never Knew