To be near unto God - pagina 231

and endowed with instinct by its Maker, so you should much more lore your neighbor as man, because God has created him after his image and has endowed him with wonderful talents and ized

gifts.

If all this has been corrupted and spoiled and has become hopelessly satanic, so that there is nothing more of God in him, then love ceases and turns into hatred, even as it should. Satan also was a most wonderful creature, but he has sinned away his all, and therefore every child of God hates this monster. But however deeply fallen he may be, man in this life is never like this. The murderer on the cross rejoices before Jesus has renewed unto life those the throne. who have wandered farthest away from the fold. And this is the glorj' of the Gospel that in every man, thus also in your enemy, there is a point of connection w^here grace may enter in. By this alone is the gospel our salvation. And he who for God's sake heartily loves this remaining spark even in those who have wandered farthest ".way, loves with a love which learns to know God in this his eternal love wherewith, while we are j'et sinners, he also loves us,

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"CLEARLY SEEN AND UNDERSTOOD BY THE THINGS THAT ARE MADE." From of old the Church has pointed to nature and to the Bible as the sources of our knowledge of God; that is: the knowledge of God which comes to us from without; which can be expressed in abstract ideas; and therefore has a place in 223

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