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Luther did not see creation as a finished act but rather as an ongoing event. Luther understood creation as a present reality.(P.172)

any study of Luther’s doctrine must take into account the development of his viewpoints.(P.190)

God is revealed through self-veiling..,we need faith to recognize God’s revelation as it is concealed in the events of history.(P.194)

The category of “hiddenness" is thus extraordinarily important, both in Luther’s theology of the cross and in his view of history. God creates life by putting us to death. When judging us, God is being gracious to us.(P.196)

Revelation and hiddenness are available only as a dialectical unity. Only in Jesus Christ do we encounter God as our savior.(P.196)

history ultimately summons everyone to believe. We are repeatedly tested as to whether we really want to hear God’s Word or not,,.Each person therefore, is summoned to meet the spiritual temptations that come to us through our experience of history with firm trust in God.(P.197)..,Until the very end, the devil will never give up struggling against the light..,For after all..,it was, is, and will be he who says,"I am with you always, to the close of the age".(P.198)

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for Luther, the righteousness received in faith was not only the forgiveness of sins but also the beginning of God’s process of making us righteous.(P.150)

“Take Christ out of the Scripture, and what will you find left in them?" This led Luther directly to the conclusion that Scripture interprets itself.(P.156)

The distinction between law and gospel is one of the most important themes in Luther’s theology.(P.158)

Luther thought of God as always active…,God acts in a hidden way,,,.It teaches us to rely on God.(P.168)

The wrath of God is,,,.the power of God at work in life..,We need to flee from this wrath to the love of God..in Christ. God’s revelation in Jesus Christ breaks through the power of God’s wrath.(P.171)

到底要不要廢除死刑?一個棘手的問題

一個棘手的問題,從法務部長王清峰與檢察總長提名人黃世銘的看法相異,又再次引爆成為焦點.要不要廢除死刑?又如何廢除死刑?在強調人權的世界潮流中,不管你的立場如何,都必然會去碰觸到的問題,只是,每當是否要廢除死刑這樣的議題被提出的時候,所呈現出來的總是贊成的一群與反對的一群的彼此針鋒相對的局面,除了彼此立場鮮明的對立之外,在這樣的議題中,是否可能雖立場不同卻仍有交集之處?若是有交集的話,那會是什麼??

若要回答這個問題,就要先確認一件事情,就是甚麼樣的人或團體,提出廢除死刑,會是最有力量,最能震撼人心的,個人認為,若由受害者及親屬所組成的團體,因著愛與赦免,自發性的出面呼籲死刑的廢除,這將是最震撼人心,最純淨有力的聲音,但這樣的情況有可能發生嗎?受害者家屬有辦法接納甚至擁抱加害於他們的人嗎?加害人真的能夠發自內心的悔罪,認為自己是罪有應得,坦然無怨的面對自己的刑責?這些確實是超過人所能理解與想像的,除非人內心深處無法言喻的憤怒與傷痛被上帝的赦免與慈愛深深的觸摸擁抱,在群體中經歷愛與陪伴扶持,不然,沒有人會想要去赦免,接納加害於他們的人,也不會有人不為自己的犯行辯護的.

但如果,如果真的有那麼一群人願意赦免,接納加害於他們的人,在這樣一個基礎上,讓社會大眾學習加害人及被害人兩者之間人權的尊重,探討公義如何伸張,倫理秩序如何維護,那麼,到底要不要廢除死刑?如何執行死刑,也許就不再是全然對立的問題了.

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A Christian person is a free lord of everything and subject to no one. A Christian person is a ready servant of everything and subject to everyone.(P.130)

The category “spirit"..,refer to the way in which God is hidden fromus..,the category of the “letter" refers both to human autonomy and to the wrath of God..,the spirit is hidden in the letter.(P.146)

you will not change me into what you are , but you will be changed into what I am. (P.147)思想:Scripture change the reader or reader change Scripture.

God’s grace is always present as the hidden reality under his judgment.(P.147)

we are sinful,,.because we are self-centered and seek our own welfare. this is most true when we seek to become right with God by doing good works rather than trusting in God.(P.147)

卡片寫4天 腦麻兒打動總統夫人~令人動容的報導背後

一則標題為~卡片寫4天 腦麻兒打動總統夫人~的報導背後,隱藏了許多家有身心障礙兒,不為人知的心路歷程,也凸顯出社會對於身心障礙者仍存在著許多不友善的地方,在價值觀念上,不時的以異樣眼光對待,看不見其個別獨特的生命價值,更甚者,以所謂前世今生的因果關係來鞭打,刺殺身心障礙兒及家庭成員的靈魂.在社會資源支持上,雖然政府每年編列相關預算,但在執行成效上,仍有許多努力的空間,畢竟,家有身心障礙兒的需求是長期且多面的,況且還有許多是隱藏在社會角落,默默承受苦楚的.因此,如何讓社會資源可以適時的介入其中,應是全體國民共同關心的議題,如同有句話說,一個國家文明的進步指標,不在於外匯存底,武器科技的先進,而在於對弱勢族群的友善態度與照顧.希望,在不久的將來,身心障礙兒與家庭成員,可以很自在的在校園裡,在大街上,在社會生活中,不再感到有障礙.