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I don’t believe in universalism, but I do believe in Jesus Christ, the reconciler of all

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Karl Barth
Age: 82 †
Born: 1886
Born: May 10
Died: 1968
Died: December 10
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Theologian
University Teacher
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Universalism
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The person who knows only his side of the argument knows little of that.
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God listens to Bach while the angels listen to Mozart.
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I had to show that the Bible dealt with an encounter between God and Man. I thought only of the apartness of God. What I had to learn after that was the togetherness of Man and God - a union of two totally different kinds of beings.
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What is offered to man's apprehension in any specific revelation of Christ is the living God himself.
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