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Sanctification is a brush
Sanctification is when God educates us to better resemble his holy character. What conception can we have of how God does this? One possibility would be to think that all-knowing, almighty, transcendent God has a plan of 1000+ steps for each individual’s character transformation, and executes it step by step. There would be a big […]
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Yeah, I'm losing my job 🙂
Today, 2007-11-30 at about 10:30, my chef and friend called me and told me we’re both losing our current job at 2007-12-31. Basically, that’s cool … not just that I really dislike this job. Times of changes are times where new and good things can arise. And even better, risky times have the latent possibility […]
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Reunifying sober and radical faith
It seems to me that today, radical believers are not sober (“not that interested in truth”), while sober believers are not radical (“without effect”). But faith must be both, to have the right effect. Also, only sober and radical faith will lead to “life”, where this means a justified, appropriate and adventurous, interesting dealing with […]
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Cmando community vision
Introduction What situation do you want to spend our life in? What people do you want to have around? What do you want to do as your long term main activity? Here is mine variant. Living with some fellows as a permanent, mobile, technology-enabled, intentional community … serving God by serving others … and searching […]
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Way to truth and life, fifth start
Four dead-end roads How to arrive at a truthful and (if possible) joyful life? This is justifiably the desire of humans, and it’s my desire. I tried several ways: Child-like accepted faith. I accepted to have found truth and a joyful life through Jesus, without thinking about it. This failed when I began to think […]
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Is human spirit brain-powered?
Introduction Some of my previous articles contained experimental thoughts about the nature and relationship of human spirit and body. Namely: How identity is resurrectable Wherefore do we spend our breath? insights: spiritual reality and its interface (Teil 1) (German) insights: spiritual reality and its interface (Teil 2) (German) Wesen der Personhaftigkeit, Wesen des Geist-Seins (German) […]
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A longing for radical life
Smooth societal life. People striving for survival won’t understand this: living a highly civilized lifestyle deprives of life. Within this lifestyle, I don’t have any intensive experiences. That is, I can barely distinguish between my “experiences”. That is, I have no experiences at all, just everyday life. That way, people don’t feel alive, as they […]