It was the error of Israel to put the law in God’s place, to make the law their God and their God a law. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

In the New Testament our enemies are those who harbor hostility against us, not those against whom we cherish hostility. For Jesus refuses to reckon with such a possibility.

By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which other are just as entitled to as we are.

How wrong it is to use God as a stop-gap for the incompleteness of our knowledge. If in fact the frontiers of knowledge are being pushed further and further back (and that is bound to be the case), then God is being pushed back with them, and is therefore continually in retreat. We are to find God in what we know, not in what we don’t know.