It isn't a failure!

It might seem that God could have just stepped in after the fall and eliminated free will and the divine and human rebels who had abused it. Eden would be ensured and that would be that. While that would produce the desired end, the original means—free participation in God’s creation by God’s free-will agents, designed to be like him—would have been abandoned, amounting to a very flawed idea and spectacular failure. A resolution like that isn’t fitting (or desirable) for the God of the Bible. God’s original objective must come about in the way he intended.—Michael Heiser, The Unseen Realm, 358

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That's the final snippet from the book. I saw an announcement yesterday that they are releasing a second edition, inserting stuff that Mike has on his website. They are calling it a posthumous tribute.

Next up is a collection of George Orwell essays that I picked up at a library sale last year. I bought it for his essay on the English language, but some of the other essays are well worth your time. Stay tuned!
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