evil must be blotted out, for it is enmity against God.10 Indeed, God Himself had put into man’s hands the weapons he bore when he did what was evil and thus fought against God (WA 18, 710, 1–30). For everything man has is from God (18, 614, 12). But the outcome of the battle cannot be in doubt. Here man cries for an answer to the why! Why does God put him into this desperate situation?11 But he gets no answer. He is standing before an inscrutable mystery. He feels the guilt that was bound