God talk

Yes, we have all sinned.   The question Barth is raising here does this passage of Romans 1 – 2 allow a place for salvation other than through Jesus Christ?   Obviously, the answer to this in the long run is going to be no! He goes on in the CD and looks at the speech St Paul made about the unknown God found in Acts.   Barth rightly says that not many turned to follow Christ.   At the seat of reason and scientific rationality in the ancient world… They basically laughed at the Gospel message.   It is sad but true that the modern world with all its rationalities does not have a place for God… and at times any God.   I find it really encouraging that Barth quotes from the Psalms and reminds us that it is God who is Creator which is the first part of the Churches Confession; We believe in One God the Father Creator of Heaven and Earth… In that sense I have to say I have more in common with people who have a faith in some God because they don’t deny this starting point… The created ord

Barth Continues   6   Our lives can only be truly fulfilled through our relationship with God Bereft of Understanding and If to themselves, men are at the mercy of the dominion of the meaningless powers of the world for our life in this word has meaning only in relation to the true God.   But this relation can be re-stablished only through the clearly seen memory of eternity breaking in upon our minds and hearts. There is no other relation to God save that which appears upon the road which Job travelled. If this breaking in does not occur, our thought remains merely empty, formal, critical and unproductive, incapable of mastering the rich world of appearance and of apprehending each particular thing in the context of the whole.   Unbroken thought hereby divests itself of any true relation to the concrete world, and, Contrariwise, the unbroken heart, that is to say, that sensitiveness to things which is guarded by no final insight, divests itself of the control of thought.