all respects. God goes with us on our pilgrimage through time and takes some of the kicks and blows that we experience. Nothing demonstrates this fact more clearly than the cross. There the evil inclination of the human heart caused God once again to bring to an end the world as it had been. This time it happened neither by water nor by fire, but by the heroic act of the Son, who bore in his own body the wounds inflicted by a humankind full of hatred and rage. Ludwig Koehler provides a helpful perspective