Raise your hand if you feel more like the other son in the story of the Prodigal. Then read this:
Now if anyone is perplexed and does not understand how it is possible for God’s love to render anyone pitifully wretched and miserable and even burning as it were in flames, let him consider the elder [...]
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The Other Son
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