God and the true faith respectively. This ambiguity must be remembered in the interpretation of the paragraph which we quoted. The crucial passage in Luther’s reply is this: “The confidence and faith of the heart alone make both God and an idol.” Not that Luther intended to “psychologize” the concept of God or to make God a creation of the human mind.8 To make man the creator of God would be to misinterpret Luther. The context shows that the faith of a man may be directed in one of two directions,