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Our larrikin God

05/04/2015 Leave a comment 1,530 Views

Funny Easter cartoon by Phil Day.

Around 1990 my New Testament professor, in referring to the encounter of Moses and the burning bush, spoke of Moses encountering “the larrikin God of the desert”. The God that Moses encountered was nothing like the gods of the empires of the ancient Near East. This God was about covenant, freedom and human society organised to a completely different economy ...

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