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not being at home in the world: that the believer somehow belongs
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to God's kingdom, and that this is either
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countercultural-- at odds with the general world in
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which he or she would find herself-- or it is totally incompatible with
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the world in which we live.
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The Bible is a physical manifestation of the proximity of
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the spiritual and the material in this world.
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So what makes him feel close to home, in a way, has to make him feel close
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to the religion he's trying to reject.
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That conflation is part of what makes it impossible for Haze to
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escape the question of redemption, even if he wants to answer it in a
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way that's at odds with how, for example,