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Reasons to be cheerful: gardens, Ben Stokes and cold wine

31 August 2019

9:00 AM

31 August 2019

9:00 AM

‘The Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day.’ Is there a more charming passage in the Bible? It makes God sound like an English gentleman, vastly superior to Baal or Ashtoreth or any other rival. But at the end of his stroll, Jehovah would condemn Adam and his descendants to the penalties of original sin.

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