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“God loves his work and therefore wills to preserve it. Creation and preservation are two aspects of the one activity of God.”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer“Man no longer lives in the beginning--he has lost the beginning. Now he finds he is in the middle, knowing neither the end nor the beginning, and yet knowing that he is in the middle, coming from the beginning and going towards the end. He sees that his life is determined by these two facets, of which he knows only that he does not know them”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Creation and Fall Temptation: Two Biblical Studies“It is God's earth out of which man is taken. From it he has his body. His body belongs to his essential being. Man's body is not his prison, his shell his exterior, but man himself. Man does not "have" a body; he does not "have" a soul; rather he "is" body and soul. Man in the beginning is really his body. He is one. He is his body, as Christ is completely his body, as the Church is the body of Christ”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Creation and Fall Temptation: Two Biblical Studies“Being free means "being free for the other," because the other has bound me to him. Only in relationship with the other am I free”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Creation and Fall Temptation: Two Biblical Studies“The question of why evil exists is not a theological question, for it assumes that it is possible to go behind the existence forced upon us as sinners. If we could answer it then we would not be sinners. We could make something else responsible...The theological question does not arise about the origin of evil but about the real overcoming of evil on the Cross; it ask for the forgiveness of guilt, for the reconciliation of the fallen world ”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Creation and Fall Temptation: Two Biblical Studies“The temptation of Christ was harder, unspeakably harder, than the temptation of Adam; for Adam carried nothing in himself which could have given the tempter a claim and power over him. But Christ bore in himself the whole burden of the flesh, under the curse, under condemnation; and yet his temptation was henceforth to bring help and salvation to all flesh.”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Creation and Fall Temptation: Two Biblical Studies“We should never argue with the devil about our sins, but we should speak about our sins only with Jesus.”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Creation and Fall Temptation: Two Biblical Studies