The Condition of Every Human Heart Apart from Regeneration Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann was an SS officer in World War II. This doctor did all kinds of horrific experiments on Jews and war prisoners. After the war he was captured and tried for crime. They placed him in a bullet proof glass cage during the trial. Survivors of the camp would testify against him. One man, who bore the torture marks of Eichmann on his body, broke down in sobs when he saw him sitting in that glass cage. After the trial, reporters cautiously approached him with the question what made him cry so intensely when he was in the court room. One ventured, “Was it the revived memory of what he did to you that caused you to break down like that?” His answer was stunning. “No, that didn’t cause me to weep. As I saw him sitting there in the glass cage, I realized that we are like Eichmann. He lives within us. Only grace keeps us like the glass cage kept him.” Now this was indeed received as a blow inside the ‘total depravity’ of our human heart. May God keep us from living out the sins that Eichmann lived out but may He also keep us from thinking that our human hearts aren’t as bad as his. Thanks David Zane Jones
Posted on: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 11:00:00 +0000
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