"He expanded on the theme learned from Karl Barth that would occupy so much of his thinking and writing in the years to come: religion was a dead, man-made thing, and at the heart of Christianity was something else entirely—God himself, alive. “Factually speaking,”he said, “Christ has given scarcely any ethical prescriptions that were not to be found already with the contemporary Jewish rabbis or in pagan literature.”Christianity was not about a new and better set of behavioral rules or about moral accomplishment. He must have shocked some of his listeners, but his logic was undeniably compelling. He then aggressively attacked the idea of “religion”and moral performance as the very enemies of Christianity and of Christ because they present the false idea that somehow we can reach God through our moral efforts."
~ Eric Metaxas. Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
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