"Why I so vehemently urge people to come to the exact true knowledge of Christ." Luther

And he is the propitiation for our sins; and not for our's only, but also for the sins of the whole world. I John 2.2

I am only too well aware of why I so vehemently urge people to come to the exact true knowledge of Christ. Christ is not the type of person who wants to take anything from us which belongs to us, but instead, he is more a propitiator who reconciles all the sinners in the world to God. If you are a sinner (as we all are, if the truth be told), I exhort you on my life and soul not to think of Christ sitting, as it were, on a rainbow as your judge. If this were so, you would be terrified and fall into despair. Instead, grasp hold of the true image of Christ so that you can see Him as the Son of God and of the Virgin Mary (...). He does not terrify anybody; even less would He want to torture us sinners or torment us or despise us in any way (...), on the contrary, He is the person who has taken away and annihilated all the sins of the world by letting Himself be crucified.

Martin Luther, Luther's Breviary: A Meditation for Each Day of the Year, Wartburg Verlag, p. 231.