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> [“In the caricature, God creates hell in order to torture sinners. But in the biblical story, we are the authors of hell’s fury. God does not create the power of hell; we do. God does not rape kids and murder…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-ryan-butler/in-the-caricature-god-creates-hell-in-order-to-torture-sinners-but-in/)

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## More by Joshua Ryan Butler

> [“Jesus’ doctrine of hell levels the playing field. This is one of the things I have come to love about it. It does not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-ryan-butler/jesus-doctrine-of-hell-levels-the-playing-field-this-is-one-of-the/)

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> [“One of the problems with the ways we tend to talk about the power of hell is that we shift the blame for the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-ryan-butler/one-of-the-problems-with-the-ways-we-tend-to-talk-about-the-power-of/)

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> [“Jesus contrasts who blesses and curses. The sheep are blessed “by my Father.” We might assume, then, that the goats are inversely cursed by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-ryan-butler/jesus-contrasts-who-blesses-and-curses-the-sheep-are-blessed-by-my/)

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> [“Now, the Law is good, and God gives it to his people, but God’s primary purpose in bringing Israel to the mountain is not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-ryan-butler/now-the-law-is-good-and-god-gives-it-to-his-people-but-god-s-primary/)

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> [“When we reclaim the biblical story of God’s purpose to bless, reconcile, and heal the nations through his international, multiethnic kingdom, the subtopic of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-ryan-butler/when-we-reclaim-the-biblical-story-of-god-s-purpose-to-bless/)

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> [“Jesus calls us to holiness and justice. Holiness involves dealing with the spark, the poisoned well, the root in our own hearts. Justice involves…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-ryan-butler/jesus-calls-us-to-holiness-and-justice-holiness-involves-dealing-with/)

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> [“We’re invited not to set out and find God, but to stop running and be found.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-ryan-butler/we-re-invited-not-to-set-out-and-find-god-but-to-stop-running-and-be/)

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> [“Sacrifice is not something we use to clean ourselves up so God can stand to be with us again. On the contrary, sacrifice is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-ryan-butler/sacrifice-is-not-something-we-use-to-clean-ourselves-up-so-god-can/)

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> [“But God beckons from our brokenness, breaks in through the back door, invites us to encounter him in our insecurities, sits in our suffering,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-ryan-butler/but-god-beckons-from-our-brokenness-breaks-in-through-the-back-door/)

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> [“The extinction of desire stands in stark contrast to the redemption of desire.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-ryan-butler/the-extinction-of-desire-stands-in-stark-contrast-to-the-redemption/)

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> [“This is our salvation: to be indwelt by God within us (the Spirit), united to God before us (the Son), and embraced within the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-ryan-butler/this-is-our-salvation-to-be-indwelt-by-god-within-us-the-spirit/)

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> [“The cross is not a mechanism we use to get to God, but the way God has come to find and raise us.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-ryan-butler/the-cross-is-not-a-mechanism-we-use-to-get-to-god-but-the-way-god-has/)

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> [“A moralist looks at Jesus in the desert and immediately jumps to, We need to pony up, try harder, and be faithful under temptation!…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-ryan-butler/a-moralist-looks-at-jesus-in-the-desert-and-immediately-jumps-to-we/)

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> [“Our problem is not that we’re reaching out for God and he’s refusing to be found. It’s the opposite: God’s reaching out for us,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-ryan-butler/our-problem-is-not-that-we-re-reaching-out-for-god-and-he-s-refusing/)

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> [“One wonders whether the loss of such ceremony has contributed to the Western world’s exaltation of the autonomous individual over the world—no longer seeing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-ryan-butler/one-wonders-whether-the-loss-of-such-ceremony-has-contributed-to-the/)

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