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The Gospel – The Good News of Jesus
John the Baptist and Jesus‘ first call to action was: Metanoia! This means: ‘Change your mindset!’ The Gospel – the good news – is that simply by changing our mindset, the difficult and painful things in our lives will fundamentally change for the better. It is not through violent action against evil or against what we dislike, but through acceptance of the unchangeable that the world will be fundamentally overcome in the sense of Jesus …
Died for us
The question of why Jesus had to die on the cross remains unanswered for many Christians to this day. There are plenty of interpretations, but none of them are conclusive – none are really convincing. So what is the meaning behind the statement that the cruel death of a man 2000 years ago could bring about redemption and forgiveness? The answer to this question is the subject of the following article …
Sin, the sinner and the fall
The Old Testament myth of the Fall describes the consequences for man of eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, but these consequences were not exclusively negative. The serpent promised Eve that they would be like God and know what is good and evil if they ate the fruit from the tree. This very tempting prospect made Eve see the fruit as beautiful and edible …
What was the purpose of Jesus’ mission?
The purpose of Jesus’s mission was, and still is, to convey a new, universal attitude towards the suffering and burdensome aspects of our existence …
The Theodicy Question
Why does God allow suffering in the world? This article gives answers to the so-called theodicy question in direct relation to the statements of Jesus‘ message. Whoever follows the explanations with an open mind will open up a new perspective on the difficult, the suffering and the unjust …
From there he will come to judge …
If forgiveness is the fulcrum of the message of Jesus, then what is the point of The Last Judgement and in what way will we be judged? The first answer to this is: because all division with God is limited. But the limited is not the eternal and timeless. The sphere of the spirit (God) is the timeless and unlimited and outside it nothing permanent exists. The limited ends one day, but the eternal and timeless is everlasting. Insofar as we think and act in a limited way, we ourselves will have to find an end …
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