"Jesus did not come to change the mind of God about humanity.
Jesus came to change the mind of humanity about God.
This grounds Christianity in love and freedom from the very beginning. It creates a very coherent and utterly attractive religion, which draws people toward lives of inner depth, prayer, reconciliation, healing and even universal 'at-one-ment' instead of mere sacrificial atonement...A nonviolent atonement theory says that God is not someone we need to fear or mistrust..."
- Richard Rohr -
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