TGC Reviews

In Eric Metaxas’ new biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, he includes a letter from Bonhoeffer to his brother-in-law Rüdiger Schleicher who was a theological liberal. The letter consists of what Bonhoeffer believed about the Bible and how it relates to the whole life of the Christian. The climax of the letter is when Bonhoeffer addresses Scripture and the knowledge of God:

If it is I who determine where God is to be found, then I shall always find a God who corresponds to me in some way, who is obliging, who is connected with my own nature. But if God determines where he is to be found, then it will be in a place which is not immediately pleasing to my nature and which is not at all congenial to me. This place is the Cross of Christ. And whoever would find him must go to the foot of the Cross, as the Sermon on the Mount commands. This is not according to our nature at all, it is entirely contrary to it. But this is the message of the Bible, not only in the New Testament but also in the Old Testament.