The Word of God and Faith
Summarizing his own understanding of the Word of God and faith, Iwand writes:
Faith, however, means: he shall be Lord. Thus God finds the person who even now, in the invisibleness of not-seeing, yet believing, takes him in faith to be the all-embracing fullneas of reality. Whoever believes in God believes in the truth of his word. Then, aIl reality, experience, conscience and the law may stand in opposition to it. His word, nonetheless, remains true. In the believer, the word has found its ally – the only one whom God accepts.” (Iwand, NW 1, Glauben und Wissen, p. 202)
For Iwand, the Word of God is the source of all that exists, it is the (the) “point where being and non-being are correlated to each other in transition, where that which is not, is created and that, which is, is dissolved into nothingness. This point is found, it is there. It is called: the Word of God! Therefore, faith stands in relation to the word, in an irrevocable relation, for faith presupposes the Word. Without the word faith means nothing. The Word, however, does not pre-suppose faith.” (Iwand, NW 1, Glauben und Wissen, p. 206)