Jesus said, "Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit" (Jn 12:14 ESV). What we hope for, must die. We must surrender over that which we love best.
"Our faith begins at the point where atheists suppose that it must be at an end. Our faith begins with the bleakness and power which is the night of the cross, abandonment, temptation and doubt about everything that exists! Our faith must be born where it is abandoned by all tangible reality; it must be born of a nothingness, it must taste this nothingness and be given it to taste in a way that no philosophy of nihilism can imagine." ~ H.J. Iwand
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This is a mess of a card as it stands. As it is, some nut job will kill themselves or another out of hope and love. More work in this pattern is necessary, for when does it apply? To what degree? And how can we trust ourselves or our destroyer?
Furthermore, this card really means the theologia crucis. It is really about negative theology and God's hiddenness. I think I'm gesturing at the eventual card here, but not really hitting the mark. And I really don't like this title. It sounds like a vegetative nature religion rather than a confession of Jesus. Jesus's death and resurrection have nothing to do with natural events.
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