being "in Christ"

Reading the Bible for the First Time: Letters of Paul

Apr 24, 2022

Love and Justice, Sermon, Spirituality, Unitarian Universalism, World Religions

being "in Christ", Book of Proverbs, Gregory J. Riley, Jesus, Paul of Tarsus, Pliny the Younger, the hero archetype

You may recall the main theme of the book of Proverbs in the Bible: Bad things happen to bad people, and good things happen to good people. For thousands of years, this has been a major strand of wisdom in Judaism. So along comes Jesus, around year 30 of the common era. His ministry of…