{"id":1187,"date":"2020-10-16T09:29:19","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T07:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/logikos.club\/?p=1187"},"modified":"2021-01-07T12:30:19","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T11:30:19","slug":"die-welt-von-gott-her-verstehen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/logikos.club\/?p=1187","title":{"rendered":"Die Welt und das Leben von Gott her verstehen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u00bb<strong>The longer I live, the clearer it becomes to me that <span class=\"has-inline-color has-luminous-vivid-orange-color\">unless one begins with the true knowledge of God, nothing else in the world, in life, or in the Christian life makes any sense at all<\/span>.<\/strong> Those who begin below, with circumstances, and attempt to reason up, drawing conclusions about God (that He is kind or cruel, accessible or aloof, powerful or weak) inevitably err. Only as we begin with the truth of God (that He is sovereign, almighty, wise, good, and just) and reason down to our circumstances (be they good or bad), does life begin to make sense.\u00ab<\/p><cite>Dr.&nbsp;Terry Johnson, Independent Presbyterian Church Savannah, GA, in: Steven J. Lawson, <em>Show me your glory \u2013 Understanding the majestic splendor of God<\/em>. 1. Aufl.. Sanford, FL: Reformation Trust Publishing, a division of Ligonier Ministries, Orlando, FL, 2020.<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00bb<strong>Je l\u00e4nger ich lebe, desto klarer wird mir, dass nichts in der Welt, im Leben oder als Christ Sinn macht, wenn man nicht mit der wahren Erkenntnis Gottes beginnt. <\/strong>Jene, welche unten, bei den Lebensumst\u00e4nden, beginnen, und dann versuchen, sich mit logischen \u00dcberlegungen hochzuhangeln, indem sie Schlussfolgerungen \u00fcber Gott ziehen (dass Er g\u00fctig sei oder grausam, zug\u00e4nglich oder distanziert, machtvoll oder schwach), gehen unausweichlich in die Irre. Erst wenn wir mit der Wahrheit \u00fcber Gott beginnen (dass Er souver\u00e4n, allm\u00e4chtig, allweise, gut und gerecht ist) und von dieser Wahrheit ausgehend Schlussfolgerungen ziehen bis hinab in unsere Lebensumst\u00e4nde (seien sie gut oder schlecht), beginnt das Leben Sinn zu machen.\u00ab<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Die wahre Erkenntnis Gottes bestimmt entscheidend unsere Weltanschauung, aber sie zielt und wirkt noch wesentlich tiefer. Denn <strong>Leben und Erkenntnis h\u00e4ngen fest zusammen<\/strong>. Vor 2.000 Jahren sprach der Sohn Gottes dar\u00fcber mit seinem Vater:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Dies aber ist <strong>das ewige Leben<\/strong>, dass sie dich, den allein wahren Gott, und den du gesandt hast, Jesus Christus, erkennen.<\/p><cite>Johannes 17,3 (ELB03)<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00bbThe longer I live, the clearer it becomes to me that unless one begins with the true knowledge of God, nothing else in the world, in life, or in the Christian life makes any sense at all. Those who begin below, with circumstances, and attempt to reason up, drawing conclusions about God (that He is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/logikos.club\/?p=1187\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u201eDie Welt und das Leben von Gott her verstehen\u201c<\/span> weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-lichtsplitter","category-zitate","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/logikos.club\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/logikos.club\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/logikos.club\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/logikos.club\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/logikos.club\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1187"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/logikos.club\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1389,"href":"https:\/\/logikos.club\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions\/1389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/logikos.club\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/logikos.club\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/logikos.club\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}