To be near unto God - pagina 134

They thought

that they had thereby brought

God

closer to the people, while in fact the miserable image had caused all knowledge of God to be lost to them. With every representation of God, God himself is gone. Hence the searching warning of Little children, keep yourselves from St. John: idols.

Show us the Thus there remains the cry: Father. The cry from the soul, that is not satisfied with a dogma and a creed, but wants God himself; the truly childlike and devout heart that thirsts for the living God. And side by side with this remains the other fact, that no objective representation of God is possible, and that He can not be seen with mortal eye. He is the Invisible. With every effort to represent him by an image the Infinite is lost and man is exiled farther away from God. And the reconciliation of these mutually excluding facts that we are inwardly impelled not to rest until we have seen God, and that by representations of him we lose him altogether "He that hath lies in Jesus' answer to Philip: seen Me, hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, show us the Father?" (John 14:9). And how? There is an outward look and there :

an inward look. But we can not have this inward look as single individuals. Not by ourIn the selves alone, but in our human nature. Son of Man God himself appears to us in this human nature. Through fellowship with the Son of Man we see God, in Jesus, through Jesus, and through the Holy Ghost we see him in ourselves. Not the image of God in the temple of idols, but the image of God in Christ. is

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