What Luther had done was something else entirely. Far from saying there is only this material world, he said God originally created this material world as good and had suffused it with his presence, but in Eden we fell away from that union with God. Thus the split between the “material” and the “spiritual” is the wound at the heart of the universe, and only Jesus can heal it. Therefore let us now allow him to do so by inviting him into this world. He came to Bethlehem and died on Calvary, but we must invite him into our hearts and must accept him so that he can do in our lives what he came to
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