GENESIS

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GENESIS
Suffering
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Head VI Francis Bacon (1909 -1992)
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GENESIS
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2 Samuel 66-7 When they came to the threshing
floor of Nacon, Uzzah reached out his hand to the
ark of God and took hold of it, for the oxen
shook it. The anger of the LORD was kindled
against Uzzah and God struck him there because
he reached out his hand to the ark and he died
there beside the ark of God.
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Garden of Earthly DelightsHieronymus
Bosch(c.1450-1516 )
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Hell Extract from the right panel of The Garden
of Earthly Delights
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Hell (again)
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When the Morning Stars Sang(from the Book of
Job)William Blake (1757-1827)Job 383-7
Gird up your loins like a man, I will question
you, and you shall declare to me. "Where were
you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell
me, if you have understanding. Who determined
its measurements--surely you know! Or who
stretched the line upon it? On what were its
bases sunk, or who laid its cornerstone when the
morning stars sang together and all the heavenly
beings shouted for joy?
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C.S. Lewis (1898 1963) "God whispers to us in
our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience,
but shouts in our pains It is his megaphone to
rouse a deaf world (The Problem of Pain)
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The ScreamEdvard Munch(1863 1944)
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• I am a more sensitive person, a more
  effective pastor, a more sympathetic counselor
  because of Aarons life and death then I would
  ever have been without it.  And I would give up
  all of those gains in a second if I could have my
  son back.  If I could choose, I would forego all
  the spiritual growth and depth which has come my
  way because of our experience, and be what I was
  fifteen years ago, an average rabbi, an
  indifferent counselor, helping some people and
  unable to help others, and the father of a
  bright, happy boy.  But I cannot choose.

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Phnom Penh Killing Fields of Choeung Ek
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• Matthias Grünewald
• (c.1475-1528) The Crucifixion

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• God is love and he enfoldethall the world in
  one embrace with unfailing grasp he holdeth
  every child or every race. And when human
  hearts are breaking under sorrows iron rod,
  then they find that self-same aching deep
  within the heart of God.

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GENESIS
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