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God
by Martin Luther
What does it mean to have a god, or, what Is
God?
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Therefore to have a god is simply
to trust and believe in him. It is, as I have often said, only the heart’s
confidence and faith that make both God and an idol. If your faith and confidence are right, your
God will be right too. On the other hand,
if your confidence is false and wrong, you do not have the true God; for these
two, faith and God are correlative concepts.
Therefore I say that your god in reality is that around which you interlink your heart and on which you place your confidence.
Therefore I say that your god in reality is that around which you interlink your heart and on which you place your confidence.
… God grasps everything in a moment, the beginning,
the middle, and the end of the entire human race and of all time. And what we consider and measure according to
the sequence of time as a very long, extended tapeline, He sees in its
entirety, as though wound together into a ball. And so both the life and death
of the last and the first human being are no farther apart for Him than a single moment.
Related Bible Texts:
Genesis 1:1-2:3;
Exodus 20: 1-6;
Isaiah 45:1- 46: 13;
2 Peter 3; 8-10
Source: From the archives of Martin Luther
