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Jesus of Nazareth ushers in not simply a new religious possibility, not simply a new ethic or a new way of salvation, but a new creation.

N. T. Wright

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N. T. Wright
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: November 1
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Nicholas Thomas Wright
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Swords don't glorify the creator-God. Love does. Self-giving love, best of all.
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Deism, historically, produces atheism. First you make God a landlord, then an absent landlord, then he becomes simply absent.
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God is the one who satisfies the passion for justice, the longing for spirituality, the hunger for relationship, the yearning for beauty. And God, the true God, is the God we see in Jesus of Nazareth, Israel's Messiah, the world's true Lord.
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