romans
stoat | January 28, 2011At a funeral recently, this was the lesson, from which I excerpt:
31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
(see here for some analysis and commentary, that looks fairly mainstream to me).
And I thought at the time, what doesn't seem to be in the commentaries: very nice, but what about the other side: if we believe that God gave up his Son (ignoring for the moment the manifold theological problems with a divisible God) to…