Love That Will Not Let Me Go

LOVE THAT WILL NOT LET ME GO
A FRESH LOOK AT GENESIS
M.M.NINAN
oddest, most villainous or miserable, as one to whom Jesus Christ is Brother and God is
Father; and we have to deal with him on this assumption.” н Karl Barth
“The doctrine of election is the sum of the gospel because of all words that can be said or
heard it is the best:
that God elects man;
that God is for man too the one who loves in freedom.”
“…The simplest form of the dogma may be divided at once into the two assertions
that Jesus Christ is the electing God
and
that He is also elected man.”
“[Man] can certainly flee from God (he does so), but he cannot escape Him…
He may let go of God,
but God does not let go of him”
“The determination of the elect consists
In the fact that he allows himself to be loved by God
—to live as one from whom all eternity God in His incomprehensible and unmerited goodness
did not will to renounce, and therefore will not renounce.”
“The command of God sets man free.”
“The mere fact that it takes place at all,
that God stands before man as his Lord,
that man’s existence can become his confrontation with God’s command,
always means that God does not will to be without us,
but, no matter who and what we may be, to be with us,
that He Himself is always ‘God with us,’ Emmanuel.”
“In Jesus Christ He has chosen man from all eternity as His own,
for life in His kingdom,
to be a member of His people,
His possession.”
“THE DOCTRINE OF THE WORD OF GOD”
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