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It is possible — and laymen have a very exact perception in regard to this — that theology makes the young theologian vain and so kindles in him something like gnostic pride. The chief reason for this is that in us men truth and love are seldom combined. It is also possible to say precisely why. Truth seduces us very easily into a kind of joy of possession: I have comprehended this and that, learned, understood it. Knowledge is power. I am therefore more than the other man who does not know this and that. I have greater possibilities and also greater temptations. Anyone who deals with truth — as we theologians certainly do — succumbs all too easily to the psychology of the possessor. But love is the opposite of the will to possess. It is self-giving. It boasteth not itself, but humbleth itself. -Helmut Thielicke, A Little Exercise for Young Theologians

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Thanks, Michael - I was wondering why, unlike darker corners of the blogosphere, everyone wasn’t applauding and nodding their heads until they snapped off (jn).

Dang, Josh - you really DO like Luther! If I knew German I could picture him saying something very much like that. I didn’t have to hear the Law for “sin to come alive and kill me”, though - not only are there very few Jews in Idaho from whom to hear the Law, but I was raised with a relativism that couldn’t concieve of a fixed absolute wrong-doing. But, as I said before, its not really relevant to the point I was oringinally making, which is that a person shouldn’t have to share your view of the Law (or complementarian views of men’s and women’s roles, or expository preaching, etc.) to be considered a genuine preacher of the Gospel or an authorized “Gospel” Church.