Conrad Knauer wrote
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'I read about Alister McGrath's "The Twilight of Atheism: The Rise and
Fall of Disbelief in the Modern World" in the religion section of the
local paper and checked it out from the public library. '
'Longwinded Postmodernist Apologetics
'In the final major example of revisionism, McGrath asserts that
atheism was the foundation of Nazism: "those who planned the
Holocaust, and those who slammed shut the doors of the Auschwitz gas
chambers were [...] free from any divine prohibitions or sanctions, or
any fear of future divine judgment." (P. 183) '
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McGrath appears unaware that his God is a forgving God who will not
have any divine future judgment on Christians , no matter what they
have done.
I'm sure the Catholic Commander of Auschwitz had read his Martin
Luther, and so knew he was free from any divine prohibitions or
sanctions, or any fear of future divine judgment."'
"If you are a preacher of mercy, do not preach an imaginary but the
true mercy. If the mercy is true, you must therefore bear the true,
not an imaginary sin. God does not save those who are only imaginary
sinners. Be a sinner, and let your sins be strong (sin boldly), but
let your trust in Christ be stronger, and rejoice in Christ who is the
victor over sin, death, and the world. We will commit sins while we
are here, for this life is not a place where justice resides. We,
however, says Peter (2. Peter 3:13) are looking forward to a new
heaven and a new earth where justice will reign. -- Letter 99,
Paragraph 13. Erika Bullmann Flores, Tr. from: Dr. Martin Luther's
Saemmtliche Schriften Dr. Johannes Georg Walch, Ed. (St. Louis:
Concordia Publishing House, N.D.), Vol. 15,cols. 2585-2590.
Steven Carr
steven@bowness.demon.co.uk
http://www.bowness.demon.co.uk/
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