In one of the accounts of Jesus’s death we read that the cu… - Rob Bell

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In one of the accounts of Jesus’s death we read that the curtain in the temple of God — the one that kept people out of the holiest place of God’s presence — ripped.

One New Testament writer said that this ripping was a picture of how, because of Jesus, we can have new, direct access to God.

A beautiful idea.

But the curtain ripping also means that God comes out, that God is no longer confined to the temple as God was previously.

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Robert Holmes "Rob" Bell Jr. (born August 23, 1970) is an American author, speaker and former pastor.

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