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The Lord’s Prayer – A Prayer for the Poor

In the actual text of the Sermon on the Mount, for instance, at least in the original Greek, an ominously archetypal figure, identified simply as “the wicked man” (ὁ πονηρός), makes a brief appearance. He is almost certainly meant to be understood as a depiction of the sort of avaricious, disingenuous, and rapacious man who routinely abuses, deceives, defrauds, and plunders the poor.
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Becoming a Healing Presence: Suffering and Death, pt.1

The stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles is that therefore God also suffers and dies as we do.  God still doesn’t provide us with the answer, but he does say 1) that he has suffered as we have suffered, and 2) death and suffering are not the end.
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