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1. Barth, Karl. 11 The Right of God in Jesus... [ Page | Paragraph | SubSect | Section]

thankful, new man ( Cor2 5:17 2 Cor. 5:17). So on the one hand Jesus Christ creates a past, a world which was, the worl

of the old Adam, to which we cannot look back without freezing like Lot's wife. And on the other hand he creates a

future: He not only shows us the way; he goes it himself and has already gone it for us. This is how he reestablishes the

right of God and therefore the right of man. And as he stands in the middle between past and future it becomes

2. Barth, Karl. 26 The Knowability of God [ Page | Paragraph | SubSect | Section]

is dangerous to do so. For it is identical with the phenomenon of our enmity against God's grace. This phenomenon w

of course, continually emerge. But this phenomenon no longer applies to us. It is not a subject we can possibly consider

Consider it just a moment too long, and, like Lot's wife, we become a pillar of salt. We have to do something better; we

have to do the one thing that is needful. We have to believe: not to believe in ourselves, but in Jesus Christ. In Him, alo

with our enmity against God's grace, our flight from faith too is limited, ended and destroyed.

3. Barth, Karl. 26 The Knowability of God [ Page | Paragraph | SubSect | Section]

of faith, in the rendering of praise to God and in the hope of future vision. For this very reason the Church also lives by

the fact that it looks out above itself. As soon as it looks into itself it finds only the religious community. But it must no

do this. It, too, must learn from Lot's wife what must not happen. As the earthly body of Jesus Christ it may-as is

believed and proclaimed in the Lord's Supper-be nourished by its own eternal truth in its form as the heavenly body o

Jesus Christ. It cannot be nourished in any other way. If it nourishes itself in

4. Barth, Karl. 30 The Perfections of the... [ Page | Paragraph | SubSect | Section]

in faith to look past the God who lives for us and stare into this precipice. We have not to fear that it might again

threaten us, that we might again be swallowed up by it. We appre hend by faith God's justifying and rewardingrighteousness, and it is the unbelief ofLot's wife to try to look back and again reckon or even trifle with the reality or t

possibility of damnation and death. For this is not a serious calculation but a wanton trifling. It can only be a false

Christian earnestness which causes a man to suspend his faith as it were, to lay aside for a

5. Barth, Karl. 47 Man in His Time [ Page | Paragraph | SubSect | Section]

that when Jesus asked them what they were talking about, they !"#$%&"'(")*%+,!$ ( Lk 24:17 v. 17), they stood still,

gazing back like Lot's wife, and were gloomy and sullen and sad. The same word occurs in Mt 6:16 Mt. 616, where it is

applied to the Pharisees when they fast. "Can the sons of the bride-chamber mourn (and disfigure their faces like the

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6. Barth, Karl. Aids for the Preacher [ Page | Paragraph | SubSect | Section]

life and death of Jesus ( Lk 24:14 v. 14) Hence it is not surprising that when Jesus asked them what they were talkin

about, they stood still ( Lk 24:17 v. 17), gazing back like Lot's wife, and were gloomy and sullen and sad (cf. Mt 6:16 M

616; Mt 9:15 915) For them Jesus is now no more than a bit of past history

7. Barth, Karl. Aids for the Preacher [ Page | Paragraph | SubSect | Section]

we are not asked to look past the God who lives for us and stare into the abyss. We have not to fear that it might againthreaten us, that we might again be swallowed up by it. We apprehend by faith God's justifying and rewarding

righteousness, and it is the unbelief ofLot's wife to try to look back and again reckon or even trifle with the reality or t

possibility of damnation and death. For this is not a serious calculation but a wanton trifling. It can only be a false

Christian earnestness which causes a man to suspend his faith as it were, to lay aside for a

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11 The Right of God in Jesus Christ (Questions 35-44). In Learning Jesus Christ through the Heidelberg Catechism. [word count

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26 The Knowability of God. In CD Volume II,1 ( 25-31). [word count]

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30 The Perfections of the Divine Loving. In CD Volume II,1 ( 25-31). [word count]

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47 Man in His Time. In CD Volume III,2 ( 43-47). [word count]

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Aids for the Preacher. In II. Aids for the Preacher. [word count]

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