Jonathan Edwards, Providence, & Tim Tebow

Writing for The Atlantic , Owen Strachan offers humorous and insightful answers to the many questions surrounding Tim Tebow:

Does he win because God miraculously propels him to victory? Is the “hand of God,” as famous footballer Diego Maradonna called it, directing his passes (or at least his fourth-quarter attempts)? . . . Tim Tebow was given natural and freakish athletic ability. He also has tremendous character and seemingly strong faith, gifts that, according to the Bible, only God can give. We know from 1 Corinthians 1 that God delights to make foolish “the wisdom of the world,” showing that God, and not only rappers and rock stars, has a subversive side, too (1 Cor. 1:20). It may be that God is working through the miraculous feats of Tebow on the field to draw attention to his own glory. God is regularly pleased to do such things, it seems, whether that means rebuking upper-crust Anglicans or bloated Bible-belt Baptists by raising up believers in massive numbers in marginalized regions of the world or by giving favor to politicians and accountants and homemakers who nobody else deemed worthy . . . But what happens when Tebow loses? Has God capriciously retracted his blessing on this All-American golden-boy, who runs like a lion yet speaks like a Sunday-school teacher?

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