I’ve been reading through Tim Keller’s book “The Reason for God” for quite a while. A few weeks ago in his chapter entitled “The Church is Responsible for So Much Injustice,” Keller argued against this common myth. I found this to be particularly challenging:
In Jesus’ and the prophets’ critique, self-righteous religion is always marked by insensitivity to issues of social justice, while true faith is marked by profound concern for the poor and marginalized. The Swiss theologian John Calvin, in his commentaries on the Hebrew prophets, says that God so identifies with the poor that their cries express divine pain. The Bible teaches us that our treatment of them equals our treatment of God.
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