In the Old Testament, angels act more like our superiors ... show how the angels serve Jesus in the same way they serve God.” The angels began their service to Jesus at an event called the ...

In the Old Testament, God may seem preoccupied with justice and ... James Madison wrote, “If men were angels, no government would be necessary.” But men are not angels, and the sword is ...

In fact, given that God’s love is the more abundantly poured out in the New Testament dispensation, the cost of rejecting it is correspondingly higher: If the word spoken through angels [in the Old ...

Hence Boyd recommends that we see Old Testament texts that present God as violent or authoritarian as “literary ... Boyd radicalizes, as it were, Paul’s claim that the law was “ordained by angels” ...

The parallel between God’s angels and his chosen suggests that ... does occur in the Old Testament, albeit in what was likely the very last of its books to be written. If we are correct that ...

Another Old Testament event that prefigures the sacrament of reconciliation is in Genesis 4. Adam’s oldest son, Cain, kills his younger brother, Abel. God, like he did with Adam, tries to elicit ...