Friday, December 26, 2008

The Covenant, grace and mercy

In Genesis, God looks at mankind and he is wrathful, his heart is grieved. He destroys all of mankind but for Noah and then promises Noah he wont do it again. He makes the Noahic Covenant and establishes the sign of the rainbow to forestall his wrath.
In Mark 3 Jesus enters the synagogue and sees the inclinations of mans heart. He is wrathful, he is grieved over their hardness of heart, yet instead of destroying them he heals a man and by indication of his teaching heals to the innermost being (psueche in Greek). I'm glad for the covenant, glad for the rainbow, glad for the intensity of Jesus' emotion (world destroying anger?!), glad for his mercy.

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