Mektuplar: Bir Hristiyan Nedir

And hereupon, Sir, I will declare to you, out of my small gifts and knowledge: What a Christian is, and why he is called a Christian; namely, that he alone is a Christian who has become capable of this high title within himself. He has resigned himself—with his inward ground, mind, and will—to the free grace in Christ Jesus. In the will of his soul, he has become like a young child that only longs for its mother's breasts, sincerely pants after the mother, and sucks the breasts of the mother from which it lives. Even so, that man alone is a Christian whose soul and mind enter again into the first Mother, from whom the life of man has its origin; namely, into the Eternal Word. This Word has manifested itself with the true milk of salvation in our humanity (which is blind regarding God) and sucks this milk of the Mother into his hungry soul. From this, the new spiritual man arises, and thereby the fiery soul—proceeding from the Father's property—reaches and obtains the place of God's love. In that place, the Father begets his beloved Son, and there alone the Temple of the Holy Spirit, which dwells in us, is found. There also the spiritual mouth of the soul, which eats Christ's flesh and drinks his blood, is understood, or experienced and essentially enjoyed. For he alone is a Christian in whom Christ dwells, lives, and has his being; in whom Christ, regarding the internal ground of his soul, has arisen and been made alive in the heavenly Essence which disappeared and departed in Adam. Indeed, I say, he alone is a Christian who has put on Christ's Victory (that is to say, Christ's Incarnation, humanity, sufferings, death, and resurrection, against the anger of God, and also Hell, the Devil, Death, and Sin) in his eternal ground.