Unsolvable Questions
What we mentioned in earlier posts needs to be noted, namely that the knowledge of our misery is knowledge by faith or what might be called faith knowledge, and that the misery as we see it here can be confessed only by faith. The fall into sin by our first parents with its consequences can only be seen by faith, as well as the fact that we are unable to do any good and inclined toward all evil. People without faith as to the seriousness of sin and misery are not able to accept the course of justice. For us sin becomes fully a reality only when we see it as guilt before God. And without faith it will never be that. Only faith understands the severity of the words: so wicked and perverse, which means leaving God and willfully turning against Him. Moreover, faith is offended by the problem that exists in accepting the reality of both those matters. How can it be that this world and especially man came from God’s love and yet sin is fou...
