In The Reason for God, Timothy Keller reflects on Matthew 28:17, when the apostles met the risen Jesus on a mountainside in Galilee. I’ve added emphasis on a particular sentence…

What do we need to be saved from? We need to be saved from God—not from kidney stones, not from hurricanes, not from military defeats. What every human being needs…

I’m convinced that for many Christians, their idea of redemption lines up more with ancient Greek philosophers than with what the Bible says. The ancient Greeks taught that it meant…