God's Love Post

BY VIRTUE OF CHRIST

To quote Barth:

” Men do not stand upright before God in virtue of their religion,

any more than they stand upright before Him in virtue of any other

human property. They stand upright before Him in virtue of that divine

nature by which also Christ stood when His ‘religious consciousness’ was

the recognition that He was abandoned by God. In the slain body of Christ,

we perceive the non-existence of men and supremely of religious (!) men; and

we also perceive atonement, forgiveness, justification, and redemption.

From death comes life; and what death is, is made known to us in the death of

Christ. So long, therefore, as we live we are joined to the ‘living’, human body of

Christ, to the Christ -according- to -the-flesh: so long that is, as we are what we are,

born under the Law, woven into the vast ambiguity of religious experience and

history, engaged in the game of ‘Yes and No’ ( a dangerous game, but one full of promise),

we have no right to expect our situation to be other than it is, any more than the married

woman can expect to belong to another man except her husband- so long as he lives . But-

through the slain body of Christ, we are what we are not. Observed from this scene of death

‘we’ live no more; we are dead to the Law, dead to the possibility and necessity of religion,

dead to every human possibility; we are removed, set free, unfettered. As a widow is set free

by the Law to be joined to another husband, so the road to that other life, where there is no

duplicity, no ambiguity, is thrown open to us.”

HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE! THANK YOU FOR NEW AND

EVERLASTING LIFE IN YOU AND THROUGH YOU!