- Posted July 10, 2025
I have a sense that a lot of us are frightened these days. It isn’t the hair-raising fear that…
It would be wrong to say that the Old Testament prophets bring nothing but bad news; they give us hope. The problem is that the good news they bring is mostly way out into the future. In the short term, they prophesy little beyond suffering and pain. Why is that? Possibly the most obvious reason is that there is no need for God to send us a prophet to tell us that we are doing just fine.Imagine for a moment that there is a fundamental standard of right and wrong conduct that grows out of the nature of man