The End of Religion
from Taylor Mertins Hosted by Taylor Mertins
For as much as we love the notion of God’s amazing grace, we don’t actually like it. Because it’s all so backward. It lets rotten sons and crooked tax farmers and red light district harlots and all sorts of other disreputable types, into the kingdom and thumbs its nose at all the so-called good people. Why? Because grace only works for those in need, and we don’t ever want to seem like we’re in need of anything. Except, as Martin Luther put it: “God receives none but those who are forsaken, restores health to none but the sick, gives sight to none but the blind, and life to none but the dead. God does not give saintliness to any but sinners, nor wisdom to any but fools. In short, God has mercy on none but the wretched and gives grace to none but those who are in disgrace.”
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