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The Imprecatory Psalms with Trevor Laurence

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i want to make the point that the sort of biblical theological synthesis that i am arguing for a is not a super imposition on the text. When we actually look at the texts of the imprecatory psalms themselves, they are echoing and alluding to the language of scripture or instances in the redemptive historical past of god with his people. They are introducing those categories as explanatory lenses for us the chrystologic question. I think there's a sort of flawed moral reasoning that says, you have to be sinless perfect in order to ask for the advent of god's justice on earth. And so that hear these as the prayers of the perfect christ. But when we start

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