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Being the sinners that we are, of course, we focus on the things we estimate to be good. In fact, we think that we can know Him and even perhaps connect with Him in some way. To our modern ears, we might hear this and think two things: 1) The Lutheran question, “What does this mean?” and 2) “What does this have to do with me?” To answer the first, Luther is making the point that as we look at the world, we often think we can understand who God is. He deserves to be called a theologian, however, who comprehends the visible and manifest things of God seen through suffering and the cross. That person does not deserve to be called a theologian who looks upon the invisible things of God as though they were clearly perceptible in those things which have actually happened. The life of Luther in forty-eight historical engravings. As he did this, the two theses that perhaps capture his understanding the best are the 19 th and 20 th theses: Taken from: In these Heidelberg Theses, he began to hash out the “Theology of the Cross,” and with it what it means to be a “Theologian of the Cross.” He began to explicate just what it means that the cross alone is our theology. Merely months earlier in 1518, Luther had introduced this general idea in his thesis discussed at Heidelberg. It was about Jesus earning the salvation of all mankind as He was hanged, cursed on the bloody instrument of the tree of death. It was about the total inability of man to earn any of his own merit before God.
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“The CROSS alone is our theology.” As Luther spoke those words during his lectures on the Psalms which took place between 1519-1521, he spoke words which utterly summed up the battle he was experiencing.