Ambiguity and ambivalence, relativity and equivocation are what make the gray world which lies between black darkness and bright light. So much of life must be lived in the twilight zone. Lines of demarkation between right and wrong, good and evil, seem so often blurred or fuzzy. Marilyn Monroe said wistfully, "I believe a little of everything." That's the same as saying, "I don’t believe all of anything." It's the human condition. Sometimes we dignify this by praising "the validity of honest doubt." May be so ...

But Saint Paul could say flatly that in Christ "it is always Yes." His word is absolutely unequivocal. There is no fine print, no nullifying or modifying footnotes. No loopholes. 

This means that the God revealed in Christ is not whimsical. His providence is not moody. His favo…