Showing posts with label demon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label demon. Show all posts

Friday 17 January 2014

What is life?

What is life?

 Our answer to this question will, to some extent, depend on what is on our mind when we are asked.
 Life has physical, emotional, relational and spiritual aspects and each of these will have an influence on our answer. Think about it for a moment. What does it mean to you, right now, to be alive?

 Is it enough to know that you are breathing, or must there be more, and if so, what more?

 What do people mean when they say,
 ‘I’m not living, I’m just existing’.

Still-Life with a Skull, vanitas painting.
Still-Life with a Skull, vanitas painting. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
As human beings, made in the image of God, our life is uniquely different from that of plants and other animals. How does this difference show in our daily lives? Surely the essence of our life is in the fact that we are made for eternity. Though eternity does not come straight unto us. When we die our life shall come to an end and everything of us shall decay or come to ashes in the incinerator.

At the moment of our death it will be to late to change anything. Than we will be to late to change direction or to take an other path. We shall be able to face death in peace when we do know we have lived according to the wishes of the Most High. Those who did not want to accept there is a God Creator of heaven and earth should in a way not be afraid either, but with many of them we notice they fear death. Why?


Those who believe in other things than described in the Bible may be taken by fear, because when they believe in false gods and in false beings like certain demons and devils and places of torture, the could have reason to be afraid.

Those who know the Bible do know that when we live it is important to treat all living organisms with respect, because they all are a creation of the Most High Elohim. And all creation of God, be it humans or animals shall come to the same end — humans die, animals die. also plants shall have there time of growing and flowering, but afterwards they will die and decay.
 We all breathe the same air. So there’s really no advantage in being human. None. Everything’s smoke. We all end up in the same place — we all came from dust, we all end up as dust. We as the living should at least know something, even if it’s only that we’re going to die. But the dead know nothing and get nothing. They’re a minus that no one remembers.
“19 after all, the same things that happen to people happen to animals, the very same thing—just as the one dies, so does the other. yes, their breath is the same; so that humans are no better than animals; since nothing matters, anyway. 20 they all go to the same place; they all come from dust, and they all return to dust.” (Ecclesiastes 3:19-20 CJB)
 “for the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; there is no longer any reward for them, because all memory of them is lost.” (Ecclesiastes 9:5 CJB)
When we live it is the time to make the right choices. In life it is the time given us by the Creator to make something if our 'being' 'our soul'. The 'soul' is not something extra special in our material form, it is our total being that can breath and as soon as we stop breathing we shall be considered to be part of the dead.
Therefore we better take life as it comes our way and whatever turns up, we better grab it and do it. And heartily! This is your last and only chance at it, For there’s neither work to do nor thoughts to think In the company of the dead, where you’re most certainly headed. When more people would read the Bible they would know that we are just mere humans who don’t have what it takes when they die, their projects die with them.
 “whatever task comes your way to do, do it with all your strength; because in sh’ol, where you will go, there is neither working nor planning, neither knowledge nor wisdom.” (Ecclesiastes 9:10 CJB)
 “when they breathe their last, they return to dust; on that very day all their plans are gone.” (Psalms 146:4 CJB)
So, why are atheists afraid when they die or why should believers be afraid when they die? the non-believer knows when he dies it shall be finished 'and that is it'. why should he worry when he knows the outcome of death?

And why should a believer worry. When he dies and becomes dust like everybody, why should he worry? By death we have paid the penalty for our sins. 

But those who believe in Christ Jesus, the son of God, who died (whilst God can not die) and was resurrected from death and taken out of the dead, they know they can find an example in what God did with Christ Jesus and can do with us. Believers in Christ also do know he was lower than angels, but was made higher by his Father, Who is, was, and shall always be the Most High. Believers trust that God took Jesus, the son of man, with Him in heaven, to sit at His right hand to become a mediator between man and God.
“he gave him no inheritance in it, not even space for one foot; yet he promised to give it to him as a possession and to his descendants after him, even though at the time he was childless.” (Acts 7:5 CJB)

 “for god is one; and there is but one mediator between god and humanity, Yeshua the Messiah, himself human,” (1 Timothy 2:5 CJB)
Yes, today we have a human preceding by God. He can talk for us and be our advocate, so that when Jesus shall return to the earth to judge the living and the dead, we would have a chance to become rightly judged and either to be placed by the living or by the dead, either to be allowed to enter the gate of the KiIngdom of God or to fall into the category for the Second death.
Than there shall come an end to death.
“he will swallow up death forever. ADONAI ELOHIM will wipe away the tears from every face, and he will remove from all the earth the disgrace his people suffer. for ADONAI has spoken.” (Isaiah 25:8 CJB)
“for what one earns from sin is death; but eternal life is what one receives as a free gift from god, in union with the Messiah Yeshua, our lord.” (Romans 6:23 CJB)
 “21 for since death came through a man, also the resurrection of the dead has come through a man. 22 for just as in connection with adam all die, so in connection with the Messiah all will be made alive. 23 but each in his own order: the Messiah is the firstfruits; then those who belong to the Messiah, at the time of his coming; 24 then the culmination, when he hands over the kingdom to god the father, after having put an end to every rulership, yes, to every authority and power. 25 for he has to rule until he puts all his enemies under his feet. 26 the last enemy to be done away with will be death,” (1 Corinthians 15:21-26 CJB)
“he will wipe away every tear from their eyes. there will no longer be any death; and there will no longer be any mourning, crying or pain; because the old order has passed away.” (Revelation 21:4 CJB)
So those who have faith in Christ do not have to worry when they die, as long as they made their best of their life.

What we become is the reality of what it means to us to be alive today. So, after all this, the question remains, what is life?

 I like the answer I read recently which twists a well known saying.
 ‘Life is doing what comes supernaturally.’ Let’s live!

Yes
Cover of Yes

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Please do read also:

  1. Cosmos creator and human destiny
  2. Choices
  3. Always a choice 
  4. We have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace 
  5. A person is limited only by the thoughts that he chooses
  6. Science, belief, denial and visibility 1
  7. Science, belief, denial and visibility 2
  8. Choose you this day whom ye will serve 
  9. It is a free will choice 
  10. For those who make other choices
  11. Dying or not
  12. What happens when we die?
  13. The Soul confronted with Death
  14. Dead and after
  15. Destination of righteous
  16. Destination of the earth
  17. Sheol or the grave
  18. Soul
  19. The Soul not a ghost
  20. Is there an Immortal soul
  21. Human Nature: What does the Bible teach?
  22. Immortality, eternality – onsterfelijkheid, eeuwigheid
  23. How are the dead?
  24. The soul has no rainbow if the eyes have no tears
  25. Let not sin reign in your mortal body
  26. We will all be changed
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Find also of interest:

Never Take Resources For Granted!
The Vital Social Status versus The Vital Social Necessities
Choose A Positive Influence In Life
Beautiful Life…


 


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Tuesday 29 December 2009

De genezing van de verlamde

In Jezus tijd waren er meer gehandicapten te zien dan vandaag. sommigen leken ook door 'de duivel bezeten'. Anderen werden bestempeld als demonen.
De mensen met lichamelijke en geestelijke moeilijkheden zochten manieren om tot oplossingen te komen.
Zij hadden veel minder mogelijkheden dan vandaag om mensen te zien, te horen of aan te spreken. Het was zeker niet makkelijk om een genezer te vinden of om de juiste middelen te vinden.
In Jezus tijd werden er soms meer bergen verzet dan vandaag om iemand bepaald te horen of te zien of om een gebeurtenis mee te maken.

Martin Rozestraten heeft in 2007 een lezing gegeven over Jezus die een hoge missie had. Mensen genezen, de bedoeling van de Torah uitleggen, en het evangelie verkondigen. Dat evangelie was hijzelf!

Hij legt er de nadruk op dat wij ook dat vertrouwen in Jezus moeten krijgen dat vele gehandicapten hadden in het begin van onze nieuwe jaartelling.

Lezing: De genezing van een verlamde #1 Intro op: Hij zag hun geloof
Lezing: De genezing van een verlamde #2 Je zelf verloochenen
Lezing: de genezing van een verlamde #3 lichamelijk gehandicapten
Lezing: de genezing van een verlamde #4 Jezus getroffen door hun geloof
Lezing: de genezing van een verlamde #5 één ding echt nodig

Sunday 22 November 2009

Dominee Bekker verdreef Duitse duivels

Balthasar Bekker

De Nederlandse dominee Balthasar Bekker (foto) heeft ruim driehonderd jaar geleden een einde gemaakt aan het Duitse bijgeloof in de macht van duivels en demonen over de mens. Hij deed dat met zijn vierdelige levenswerk Betoverde Wereld dat van grote invloed was op de toenmalige discussie over heksenvervolgingen en exorcisme.

Dat concludeert filosofe Annemarie Nooijen in een onderzoek waarop ze 17 november hoopt te promoveren ana de Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen. Nooijen onderzocht de talrijke reacties op het werk van Bekker (1634-1698). Zijn Betoverde Wereld was een bestseller in het laatste decennium van de 17e eeuw en in 18e eeuw. Het maakte in Nederland nagenoeg een einde aan het bijgeloof dat duivels en demonen macht konden uitoefenen op de mens.

De Duitse vertaling was koren op de molen van de tegenstanders van de toen nog steeds gangbare heksenvervolgingen en duiveluitdrijvingen bij onze oosterburen. Volgens Nooijen had Bekker grote invloed op de theologische verlichting in Duitsland. Zijn weerlegging van de heksenwaan had een doorslaggevende maatschappelijke impact. Toch duurde het nog tot 1775 voordat het laatste Duitse heksenproces plaats had. "Zonder Bekker had dat wellicht nóg langer geduurd, aldus Nooijen.

Bron: ANP

Wednesday 1 July 2009

Leuvense ecclesia spreekt over Demonen

Het gespreksonderwerp deze zomer in de Christadelphian ecclesia te Leuven is Demonen.
Er wordt de vraag gesteld of demonen bestaan. Zijn er geesten die het kunnen overnemen van andere mensen of dieren? Is het mogelijk dat de ene geest indringt in de andere of deze verdringt? Zijn demonen aparte entiteiten?
Lees er meer over in >

Is een Demon een op zijn eigen bestaande geest?

Tuesday 30 June 2009

Demonen in dienst besproken

Vorige en komende zondag is het gespreksonderwerp Demonen.
Bestaat er een Demon of een geest die aanspraak kan maken op andere geesten of zich in personen kan nestelen. Wat is bezetenheid? Hoe zijn mensen met epilepsie te aanschouwen. Worden zij op het moment van een aanval door geesten in beslag genomen?
In onze diensten van deze zomer gaan wij daar dieper op in.
Lees hieromtrent > Is een Demon een op zijn eigen bestaande geest?

Tuesday 5 May 2009

Where does Satan lives?

I would like to ask people who believe in the devil:

If Satan is a person and when there are angels who did not want to follow God, where do they stay?

In case Devils were originally angels-with-angel-'bodies' but fell in the rebellion of the past (Genesis 6--the demon possessed Kings, and the violence in the earth)did They 'left their habitation' or 'abandoned  their sphere of authority' (in heaven, a la Jude/2Pet) and came to earth to possess human bodies--in a Satan-led power grab, perhaps to experience OUR kind of sensory 'escape'(?). This would entail that they gave up their 'angelic bodies' to indwell humans. But living in humans would mean that we do have a spirit living in us, or that a demon (as a sort of person) can live in us. The ring-leaders of the rebellion (except Satan) were cast into the abyss (Jude/2Pet again) But then would not all the other spirits lost their hosts /in the Flood/? In case there are still devils hovering around they became it after the flood.They were not consigned to the abyss /yet/ then--so they continue to needhosts (now that they cannot get their old 'angelic' bodies back). 



2 Peter 2: 4 Certainly if God did not hold back from punishing the angels that sinned, but, by throwing them into Tar´ta·rus, delivered them to pits of dense darkness to be reserved for judgement; 5 and he did not hold back from punishing an ancient world, but kept Noah, a preacher of righteousness, safe with seven others when he brought a deluge upon a world of ungodly people;

When devils or evil spirits are  being fallen angels would they not be punished and being destroyed by God? The fallen angels or the angels that did not keep within their original authority and left their own habitation are kept in darkness. Is there not meant under the ground?

Jude: 6 And the angels that did not keep their original position but forsook their own proper dwelling place he has reserved with eternal bonds under dense darkness for the judgment of the great day.

Would this not mean that all those angels are like the dead people without life and without a conscious body, feeling nothing and being just like dead? Shall they not be saved up to appear at the end of times by the judgement day because God hold the wicked until the Day of Judgement?

2 Peter 2: 9 Jehovah knows how to deliver people of godly devotion out of trial, but to reserve unrighteous people for the day of judgement to be cut off, 10 especially, however, those who go on after flesh with the desire to defile [it] and who look down on lordship.