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Deliver Us from the Evil One

Deliver Us from the Evil One

Evil is personal.

Christ John Otto
Aug 07, 2024
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In the Greek, the prayer does not say "evil."
It says, 
"the evil."
The Bible is not abstract.  
There are no vague abstract concepts.
Abstract concepts are a hangover from Greco-Roman philosophy.
In the Bible,
everything is personal and concrete.
So as I have said before,
we remember by eating and doing.
The war we are facing is personal.
The Father is…

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