Re: human history

Bruderhof wrote:

> Humanity indeed has its history. We can learn it—and we also can learn
> much from it. But this is not the history that truly brings joy to our
> hearts. The joy of human history is not so great that we would not
> gladly give it up. But there is also a history made up of experiences
> which are not confined to man himself but which are informed by
> something of the divine. That which is human must be touched by the
> divine. 
> 

When we read of the singular experiences of men of God from Abraham to 
Jesus and the apostles—let us admit it openly—they make us angry. What 
wouldn’t people give if they could take Jesus without having to take in
the 
bargain other events that are, humanly speaking, unexplainable? And to top

it all off, in the resurrection Christ is raised to heaven. How unsettling

this re****t is to all those who would like to make this dear man the 
founder of their religion—if only he had not said things or had things
said 
about him that must make cultured people unculturedly ashamed.


-- 
Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt
www.blumhardts.com