Martin, Luther, Grace and OCD, Romans chapter 1, verse 17
Sub-title – How Martin Luther’s mental illness drove him to rediscover the heart of the Gospel and rescue Christianity from its deadly sleep.
17 For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed – a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: ‘The righteous will live by faith.’
Romans 1:!7
I was altogether born again and had entered paradise itself through open gates … that place in Paul (i.e., Romans 1:17) was for me truly the gate to paradise.
“I extolled my sweetest word with a love as great as the hatred with which I had before hated the word ‘righteousness of God’. Thus that place in Paul was for me truly the gate to paradise.”
Martin Luther
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