Difference-holiness means that God is not like us but is utterly unique: he stands outside us and over against us as the objective reality to whom we must respond.

Making complex subjects simple is a genuine good - at least to the extent that it is possible. Simplicity seeks to make things easily understood. Yet true simplicity presents things clearly without over-simplification, which reduces them to the point of distortion. Achieving this balance is a rare and valuable skill.

It is significant that God – YHWH in the Hebrew Old Testament – is first known as ‘Providence’ (YHWH-JIREH), within the explicit context of redemption history, as he supplies a lamb for Abraham to sacrifice instead of Isaac (Gen 22:14, 8).  From the outset, therefore, that is, the doctrine of providence rests on the doctrines of both creation and redemption, grounded in God's foreordained purposes for mankind in Jesus Christ. As we will see below, the providence of God, his governance of creation and history, stretches outward from his saving purposes, which came to their fulness in Jesus Christ and embraces every dimension of life.

All the goodness that there is in this beautiful world is caused by the perfect goodness of God. For a basic fact of Biblical doctrine is that God who is good in himself shares that goodness with others. God’s essential goodness – his goodness in himself – the goodness of his being and nature, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, is given in all kinds of ways by the Creator for the good of creatures, who are not God.

The good news begins with God. For the gospel’s main message concerns ‘God with us’ in the Lord Jesus Christ ‘to save his people from their sins’ (Matt 1:21, 23). The fundamental focus of the Christian good news regards ‘God incarnate, Jesus of Nazareth, who did for us what we could not do for ourselves, in order to bring us, a lost people, back to God.’ So the first great reality of the gospel is God himself. God is where the gospel begins.

የክርስቶስ ትንሣኤ እያንዳድኑን የዐዲስ ኪድና ትምህርቶች የመሸፈን ባሕርይና ፋይዳ ያለው ነው። የክርስቶስ ትንሣኤ የሚሰጣቸውን ጥቅሞች በተለያዩ መንገዶች መግለጽ ይቻላል።

የክርስቶስ ኢየሱስ ትንሣኤ ኢየሱስ ክርስቶስ በምድር ላይ የነበረው ሕይወቱና አገልግሎቱ ማብቂያ ያገኘበት ክሥተት ስለመሆኑ ከወንጌላት ዘገባ መረዳት እንችላለን። በአጠቃላይ መልኩ ሲታይ የዚህ እውነት ታሪካዊ ዳራውና ቀጥተኛ ዐውዱ የሰው ልጆች ሁሉ ሞት ሲሆን፣ በተለየ መልኩ ደግሞ የኢየሱስ ክርስቶስ ሞት ነው።

There are two principal assumptions or experiences that we can bring to the Book of Exodus that may impact our understanding ... It speaks powerfully to the minds and hearts of anyone experiencing exploitation and injustice precisely because of its account of Israel’s liberation. ... It also addresses the tension many Christians feel between what we read in the Word of God and what we feel in our own human experience.

The gospel can be cast in both careful formal language as well as in everyday informal language. It is something that addresses and speaks to all of us, something that all of us can grasp hold of, understand, and relate to at whatever level we will. ... There is a comprehensiveness and an immensity to the Biblical good news. Yet all its elements are interlinked, gathered around a central strand, unified by a single person. ...