Adam and Eve to the likes of Friedrich Nietzsche. For those who have built their theology on the one note of law, beyond good and evil there is nothing but chaos or supermen who make their own law—a tyrant or anarchy, take your poison. But for Luther a whole new world beyond good and evil showed itself in what the Bible calls “the gospel.” What is this gospel? Luther answered, “The Gospel is a proclamation about Christ: that he forgives sins, grants grace, justifies and saves sinners. Although there
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