"With every theorizing, 'Did God say?' we place ourselves outside the truth ... 'When God is gone,' says Luther, 'the fairy tales arrive.' When His word is no longer understood as a demand, a threat, a challenge, but is regarded as speculative truth, then man becomes a fool in his wisdom (Rom 1:18) and his wisdom becomes foolishness to God ... By the catagories of our thinking we remain bound to this empirical world and end in irreconcilable, inescapable theoretical and practical contradictions, that indeed point to a domain beyond these limitations which, however, can never be grasped by actual experience. ... On the ruins of perished glory humbled man learns to seek the word of the Gospel."
A. Koberlie - God's Judgment on Man's Self-sanctification, The Quest for Holiness p. 40, 41 & 47
A. Koberlie - God's Judgment on Man's Self-sanctification, The Quest for Holiness p. 40, 41 & 47
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