Sins of the Tongue
In our time of campus speech codes and hectoring for “misgendering” someone, it is tempting to downplay the fact that you really can do harm with your speech. Two of the Ten Commandments prohibit forms of speech–blasphemy and false witness. A case could be made that those are the same thing–just applied to God and man respectively. Today Tom Price shares his reflections on another essay by his mentor at Oxford.
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28:35 Evil does not have ontological status, 🤯
It is not real, it was not created because all that God created was good and all things that are true are held together by Christ. So if evil were “real” so to speak, we would have to say Christ holds it together. This doesn’t mean however that suffering is a thing of imagination.