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The Christian Tradition and the Problem of Evil
The Christian tradition has split and gone two directions. One leads to taking that binary and kind of hardening it into, you know, pre-destination. And then on the other like more extreme end would be the Christian universalist approach which is that through Jesus, the one human, he has saved all from those who have given themselves over to the power of the snake. But another part of what makes these stories so uncomfortable is that after the first few centuries when the Jesus movement was a religious, cultural, cognitive minority in Roman Empire, with the shift towards Constantine begins a shift towards the Jesus movement becoming enfranchised or enmeshed with state power systems. Once that shift happens