{"id":579,"date":"2010-10-21T11:55:51","date_gmt":"2010-10-21T09:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/?p=579"},"modified":"2010-10-21T11:55:51","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T09:55:51","slug":"pastor-van-der-burg-om-livets-mening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/2010\/10\/pastor-van-der-burg-om-livets-mening\/","title":{"rendered":"Pastor van der Burg: Om Livets mening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor Dr. teol. J. van der Burg ga i 1966 ut et hefte med tittel: <strong>Om Livets mening<\/strong> &#8211; Og med undertittel: <strong>Hvorfor gir ikke Gud oss med \u00e9n gang den himmelske salighet? Hvorfor m\u00e5 vi f\u00f8rst gjennomg\u00e5 dette jordeliv med den fare \u00e5 miste v\u00e5r salighet?<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Det er en ganske kort hefte &#8211; som <a href=\"http:\/\/katdok.aomoi.net\/wiki\/index.php?title=1966_van_der_Burg\">kan leses i sin helhet her<\/a>, og <a href=\"http:\/\/katdok.aomoi.net\/dok\/1966_burg_livets_mening.pdf\">lastes ned som pdf-dokument her<\/a> &#8211; og slik starter det:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>GUD HAR SKAPT OSS FOR ET EVIG SALIG LIV ETTER D\u00d8DEN<\/p>\n<p>B\u00e5de Bibelen og v\u00e5r fornuft sier oss at vi ikke er skapt bare for dette jordiske liv. Gud har lagt i v\u00e5r natur en lengsel etter en evig og fullkommen lykke, alts\u00e5 noe som uendelig overg\u00e5r det vi kan f\u00e5 i det n\u00e5v\u00e6rende liv. &laquo;Et menneske, f\u00f8dt av en kvinne, lever en stakket tid og er fullt av elende&raquo; (Job. 14, 1). Tanken p\u00e5 d\u00f8den (dvs. jordelivets slutt, som dyrene ikke har noe begrep om) ville forbitre enhver livsglede, hvis vi ikke kunne h\u00e5pe p\u00e5 et annet liv.<\/p>\n<p>Som fornuftsvesener eier vi mennesker ikke bare sanselige begj\u00e6ringer, men ogs\u00e5 en sannhetstrang, s\u00e6rlig en trang etter \u00e5 kjenne Gud. Her i livet kan denne sannhetstrang umulig bli tilfredsstillet.<\/p>\n<p>Og hvor mange mennesker m\u00e5 ikke utst\u00e5 seerlig store lidelser, som de vet ikke vil opph\u00f8re s\u00e5 lenge de lever: uhelbredelig syke, blinde, d\u00f8ve, invalide, osv.?<\/p>\n<p>Det ville stride mot Guds kj\u00e6rlighet og visdom hvis han, som er allmektig, ikke hadde skapt oss for noe annet enn dette kortvarige kummerfulle liv p\u00e5 jorden, hvor det ikke er noen proporsjon mellom det vi attr\u00e5r, og det vi f\u00e5r.<\/p>\n<p>Troen p\u00e5 et liv etter d\u00f8den er ogs\u00e5 et n\u00f8dvendig grunnlag for det moralske liv. Uten denne tro ville den menneskelige egoisme miste sin viktigste t\u00f8yle.<\/p>\n<p>Faktisk har derfor alle folk til alle tider v\u00e6rt overbevist om at det n\u00e5v\u00e6rende liv ikke er det eneste. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor Dr. teol. J. van der Burg ga i 1966 ut et hefte med tittel: Om Livets mening &#8211; Og med undertittel: Hvorfor gir ikke Gud oss med \u00e9n gang den himmelske salighet? Hvorfor m\u00e5 vi f\u00f8rst gjennomg\u00e5 dette jordeliv med den fare \u00e5 miste v\u00e5r salighet? Det er en ganske kort hefte &#8211; som [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gamle-tekster","category-teologi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}