19 October 2020

Luther and Lewis

The mysteries of God are those hidden things which God gives and which dwell in God.—Martin Luther, Sermon upon Gaudete, 1522.

Among Pantheists, like the Indians, anyone might say that he was a part of God, or one with God: there would be nothing very odd about it. But this man, since He was a Jew, could not mean that kind of God. God, in their language, meant the Being outside the world Who had made it and was infinitely different from anything else. And when you have grasped that, you will see that what this man said was, quite simply, the most shocking thing that has ever been uttered by human lips.—C. S. Lewis, Business of Heaven, p. 262.


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