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May 2020

The spirit separated from the body remains conscious, whether in heaven or hell. We have already noted that the brain does not think. Thought originates in the spirit, which then uses the brain to cause the body to say or do its will. The rich man, whose body was in...Read more
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A Saudi television series in which the taboo topic of ties with Israel became a plot line has spurred speculation it's a prelude to a real-life push for a rethink toward a country long viewed as a public enemy in the Arab world. The show, called "Exit 7," is a...Read more
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Man is a spirit living in a body through which he participates in physical events. The spirit in man distinguishes him from animals and makes it possible for him to know God. Neither man’s body nor soul is in God’s image, for God has neither. Man’s spirit is in the...Read more
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Tunahan Kuzu, the political leader of the DENK party in the Netherlands, has caused some serious controversy, Dutch broadcaster NOS reports. “If they don’t like a changing Netherlands in which people with different cultures live… like in the city of Zaandam or the neighbourhood of Poelenburg, they should get lost,”...Read more
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The sage of Nazareth may satisfy those who have never faced the problem of evil in their own lives; but to talk about an ideal to those who are under the thralldom of sin is a cruel mockery. Yet if Jesus was merely a man like the rest of men,...Read more
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If the physical universe is an unsolvable mystery, life itself is even more mysterious. We don’t know what life is—only that it comes from God and is not physical. Life animates physical bodies, yet is not part of the body. Physical life has something to do with a soul: God...Read more
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It’s not exactly breaking news that immigrants, particularly third world immigrants, are vastly overrepresented in Western Europe crime statistics. What hasn’t been seen, up until lately is that prisons that are filled primarily with Muslim inmates. The Danish Prison Federation has now raised the alarm about such conditions plaguing Danish...Read more
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Einige glauben das… andere nicht. Wer glaubt, Gott sorge sich nicht um sie, schaut meistens auf die problematischen Umstände als Beweis, dass es Gott völlig egal ist, was sie durchmachen. Es ist interessant, dass vielen Gott nur in den Sinn kommt, wenn es ihnen schlecht geht. Dann ist Er schuld....Read more

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Um zu erschaffen, musste Gott nur sprechen und es geschah. Aber um zu erlösen musste Er bluten. Das tat Er in der Person Seines Sohnes, Jesus Christus, den Er sandte, den Platz des Todes am Kreuz einzunehmen, den unsere Sünde so reichlich verdient hatte.

Erlösung war jedoch kein Gedanke in...Read more

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Frage: Ist es nicht wahr, dass es bereits viele einzelne „Antichristen“ zur Zeit des Johannes gab? Warum also behaupten Sie (und viele andere!), „der Antichrist” werde erst noch kommen?

Antwort: Wir schätzen, was Sie über die vielen Antichristen sagten, die zur Zeit des Johannes lebten. Das ändert die Tatsache...Read more

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