Where Are We Now?
You know
Where are we now?
You know.
Without Him.
We’re damned.
“Don’t say that!” you say.
“Why not,” I say.
“Prove me wrong.”
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Where are we now?
You know.
Without Him.
We’re damned.
“Don’t say that!” you say.
“Why not,” I say.
“Prove me wrong.”
Check out this quote from Luther: Ross quotes Luther by saying, “a man feels himself to be lost in the very moment when he is on the point of being saved. When God is about to justify a man, he damns him. Whom he would make alive he must first kill. God’s favor is so communicated in this form of wrath that it seems furthest when it is at hand. Man must first cry out when there is no health in him. He must be consumed with horror. This is the pain of purgatory. I do not know where it is located, but I do know that it can be experienced in this life. I know a man who has gone through such pains that had they lasted for one tenth of an hour he would have been reduced to ashes. In this disturbance, salvation begins. When a man believe himself to be utterly lost, light breaks. Peace comes in the word of Christ through faith. (143)
“One is Luther’s affirmation that death is the same as becoming open to salvation, being ready to be powerless. Another is that God’s wrath is God’s love relentlessly pursuing us even when, especially when we are at our worst, what Karl Barth calls, ‘God’s ‘no’ to man’s ‘no’” (144)