The World Has Been Twice Invaded

The world as such the product of divine creation, um, uh has a history. We don't think of the world on that quite properly with paul unless we think of it in this historicized way There's a story to tell about the world and that story includes two moments of catastrophic intervention. Sin is a power external to human beings to which they succumb Right? And so you can hear already in in his idiom the kind of martial metaphors that are so common here. He then speaks about paul's understanding of what god does in jesus christ as a second invasion So this language of invasion is he's he's fond of it.