I Take The Bible Far Too Seriously

What Expressions We Used - In Part Taken Over And In Part Newly Invented! Above All, The Famous 'wholly Other' Breaking In Upon Us 'perpendicularly From Above,' The Not Less Famous 'infinite Qualitative Distinction' Between God And Man, The Vacuum, The Mathematical Point, And The Tangent In Which Alone They Must Meet.

The Angels Laugh At Old Karl. They Laugh At Him Because He Tries To Grasp The Truth About God In A Book Of Dogmatics. They Laugh At The Fact That Volume Follows Volume, And Each Is Thicker Than The Previous Ones. As They Laugh, They Say To One Another, ‘look! Here He Comes Now With His Little Pushcart Full Of Volumes Of The Dogmatics!’—and They Laugh About The Persons Who Write So Much About Karl Barth Instead Of Writing About The Things He Is Trying To Write About. Truly, The Angels Laugh.

Dogmatics Is The Testing Of Church Doctrine And Proclamation.

One Drop Of Eternity Is Of Greater Weight Than A Vast Ocean Of Finite Things.

Our Position Is Such That We Can Be Rescued From Eternal Death And Translated Into Life Only By Total And Unceasing Substitution, The Substitution Which God Himself Undertakes On Our Behalf.