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From this love, from the cross of Christ, there flows out fully for the first time the power that allows us to experience what our sin is all about, thus uniting in itself judgment and grace. Judgment flows from grace. This is God’s judging opposition to us and to our sin, by which we experience what God has against us. That this really is the case becomes clear if we recognize that the judgment ultimately carried out on the one who refuses to believe in this love is nothing other than what the believer, too, experiences, to whom this love has brought salvation, and what he continues to experience as “chastising grace.” The difference is simply that the unbeliever wants to refuse and evade its judging force. For what he must ultimately experience is exactly what he now refuses to experience. This is why he rejects saving grace. Believers experience grace and judgment, judgment and grace, judgment through grace; the lost experience only judgment.
The Christian Doctrine of the Divine Attributes - Hermann Cremer
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