Malachi

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NASB	Malachi 4:2 "But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings; and you will go forth and skip about like calves from the stall.
AMPLIFIED 2015	Malachi 4:2 "But for you who fear My name [with awe-filled reverence] the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings. And you will go forward and leap [joyfully] like calves [released] from the stall.

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Bible Question: God- by Langston Hughes

I am God-
"Without one friend,
Alone in my purity
World without end.

Below me young lovers
Tread the sweet ground-
But I am God-
I cannot come down.

Spring!
Life is love!
Love is life only!
Better to be human
Than God-and lonely."

By the end of the Old Testament, God is far removed from the human scene. Can we prove that the charactetization of God in the poem is true? or no?

Bible Answer: GreeK: You write, "By the end of the Old Testament, God is far removed from the human scene." The last book of the Old Testament is Malachi, and in the last chapter of that book appear the words, "But to you who fear My name the Son of Righteousness shall arise with healing in His wings..." (Malachi 4:2b). This certainly doesn't sound to me like God is far removed from the human scene. Does it to you? ..... Why would you choose a poem by Langston Hughes of all people? Langston Hughes was a poet and novelist, a bitter and blasphemous skeptic who was born in Joplin, Missouri and died in 1967 at age 65. How familiar are you with his writings? What do you think of the following excerpts from his writings? ..... "Listen, Christ, you did all right in your day, I reckon -- but that day's gone now. They ghosted you up a swell story, too. Called it Bible, but it's dead now." ..... And this: "Goodbye, Christ Jesus Lord God Jehovah, beat it on away from here now. Make way for a new guy with no religion at all -- ME." One thing can be said about Langston Hughes: He's no longer a new guy with no religion; he's been dead for 40 years. God and His Christ live on and so does the word of God, the Bible, the book that Langston Hughes pronounced dead when he made his request to Jesus to beat it and make room for him, a new guy with no religion at all. I think this is so terribly sad and pathetic. What do you think? --Hank