He answered in a solemn tone, “I do know. I am associated with a
famous man, a commander of battalions in the church’s army of the
enlightened.”
Because he answered in such a solemn tone, I said, “Forgive my ask-
ing if you know where that famous commander lives.”
“I do know,” he said. “He lives not far from where Luther is buried.”
Smiling at this I said, “Why do you say where Luther is buried?Don’t
you know that Luther has risen, and that he has now recanted his errors
regarding justification by faith in three divine Persons from eternity?
Surely you know that because of this he has been transferred to join the
blessed in the new heaven, and that he laughs when he looks upon his
insane followers.”
“I know,” he retorted, “but what difference does that make to me?”
Then in the same tone he had used, I addressed him and said, “Pass
on to the famous person you are associated with that I am concerned that
on a recent occasion he went against the orthodoxy of his own church
and took away the Lord’s divinity. He let his pen plow a furrow and care-
lessly sowed materialist philosophy in it when he wrote against the wor-
ship of our Lord the Savior.”
“I can’t do that,” the chairman replied, “because on this topic he and
I are more or less of one mind. Besides, he doesn’t understand the things
I tell him, although all the things he tells me I understand very clearly.
The spiritual world enters the material world and perceives the thoughts
of people there, but it doesn’t work the other way around. These are the
present conditions of interaction between spirits and people.”
[ 9 ] Since the chairman and I were already conversing, I added: “If
possible I’d like to digress to some other questions. Do you know that the
orthodoxy of the Evangelicals, presented in their church handbook called
the Formula of Concord,teaches that in Christ, God is human and a
human is God and that his divinity and humanity exist in one individual
person and remain so to eternity? If so, how then could he, and how can
you, befoul the worship of the Lord with materialist philosophy?”
To that he replied, “Do I know that? Yes and no.”
Therefore I went on to say, “I ask your associate, although he is absent,
or else you in his place: where did the soul of the Lord our Savior come
from? If you say it came from Mary, you are insane. If you say it came from
Joseph, you desecrate the Word. But if you say it came from the Holy
Spirit you have the right answer, provided that by the Holy Spirit you
mean the Divinity emanating and having an effect, which means that the
Lord is the Son of Jehovah God.
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