“Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good things to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!”
Jesus makes this argument in the Sermon on the Mount, embedded in his teaching on prayer. The logic is straightforward and devastating in its intimacy: if even broken, imperfect human fathers know how to give their children good things, how much more does God?
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