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Luther calls to the “God against God”:
“But Luther refuses to go so far as to attribute [suffering] to ultimate significance. For this reason he flees from God who hides himself–and toward the God who became human and who reveals himself in the most hidden way on the cross. It is appropriate ‘to press on toward and to call to God against God’: toward the revealed God against the hidden one” (p. 11).
— Oct 04, 2025 04:55AM
“But Luther refuses to go so far as to attribute [suffering] to ultimate significance. For this reason he flees from God who hides himself–and toward the God who became human and who reveals himself in the most hidden way on the cross. It is appropriate ‘to press on toward and to call to God against God’: toward the revealed God against the hidden one” (p. 11).
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Andrew McNeely
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Luther against moralizing the Bible:
“It has become a deplorable custom that the Gospels and Epistles are treated like law books, in which one is to learn what we are to do, and in which the works of Christ are presented as nothing but an example held before one’s eyes. Wherever this errant opinion remains within the heart, there neither gospel nor epistle can be read usefully and in a Christian way…”
— Oct 10, 2025 11:38AM
“It has become a deplorable custom that the Gospels and Epistles are treated like law books, in which one is to learn what we are to do, and in which the works of Christ are presented as nothing but an example held before one’s eyes. Wherever this errant opinion remains within the heart, there neither gospel nor epistle can be read usefully and in a Christian way…”
