Friday, August 03, 2007

Evangelical Theologian Sees Collapsed Bridge as a Metaphor for Life

The Minneapolis bridge that collapse without warning is a sobering metaphor for our own lives and “spiritual perils,” said a prominent evangelical Thursday.

In an age of “technological marvels” and “engineering achievements,” people expect buildings to stay on the ground, airplanes to say in the air, and bridges to hold together wrote Dr. R. Albert Mohler, Jr., president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, in his online blog.

“The sudden and catastrophic collapse of the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis – just as rush hour was coming to a close – challenges some of our most comforting assumptions,” reflected Mohler.

Read more of this story on The Christian Post.

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