"Thus we in the New Testament have the promise of the forgiveness of sins and of life in the sacraments and in the Gospel. But if you look at the fact and follow the judgment and understanding of the flesh and the eyes, you will come to the conclusion that nothing is less true than what is announced to you about the remission of sins and eternal life. For we see that men die and are buried most ignominiously, are even gnawed and consumed by worms in such a way that the cadaver of no beast stinks more and is more loathsome than the body of a human being. To be destroyed, to be buried in the ground, to be consumed and reduced to dust, and indeed with such foulness that, as cadavers are commonly depicted, owls are born from the human brain and serpents from the intestines - this is not what it means to have eternal life, is it? Yet here faith must come to a firm conclusion and expect resurrection and a return to life."
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