
The Amazing Jonah Part 5: When God Loves Your Enemy
Exploring My Strange Bible
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The Point of the Gospel Is to Deconstruct the Concept of an Enemy
The point of the gospel is that none of us get to declare that it's simply God's gracious liberal mercy. We cannot come to terms with our own inner shadows except through our enemies. A theologian named Walter Wink, close with this idea, calls us the gift of the enemy. And so how Jonah 4 ends, here's the punch. Like who is this story really about? Is this really about God and Nineveh?
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