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BY VIRTUE OF CHRIST

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 … Continue Reading