tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-815187212465418058.post7207146590036865974..comments2023-12-02T08:47:01.256+00:00Comments on To whom it may concern: The Depressed Luther (Conclusion)To whom it may concernhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12606673833737508249noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-815187212465418058.post-72184129887887609552013-05-25T15:25:57.553+01:002013-05-25T15:25:57.553+01:00Osborn misses Luther's point on anfectungen. ...Osborn misses Luther's point on anfectungen. They occur of necessity to continually make room for faith and hold allthe more to the promises of God. The devil means trials to destroy faith yet God uses the for the single purpose of driving one to trust that God has forgiven his sins. Anfechtung is not easy to translate into a single English term. But can be best understood by this statement: the believer hears that God is gracious and forgiving in the Gospel. But he experience's, feels and reasons that God is still wrathful not only not forgiving his sins but constantly reminding him of them.<br /><br />Thus in the anfechtungen he experiences the hidden God, that God has turned his back on him (Moses seeing Gods backside, ie God appears to abandon one. Here we see the link to the Cross of Christ,ie the connection of our anfechtung with the cross of Christ) . Thus we turn to Christ for us (pro me) in the objective Word and sacraments back to where we know God is revealed to us for us.Larryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13387712441394419154noreply@blogger.com