Volgens de opvatting en de uitleg van de kerk door de eeuwen heen is dit het hoofdthema van het Nieuwe Testament en daarmee van het christelijk geloof, namelijk dat Jezus Christus aan het kruis zijn leven heeft gegeven voor de zonden van de mensen en uit de dood is opgestaan en dat men als zondaar aan dit heilswerk van Jezus deel krijgt door het geloof in Hem.
Ik heb dit boek geschreven omdat God de Vader met dit boek een bijzondere en nieuwe kijk op de Bijbel met meer achtergronden wil geven aan een ieder die geïnteresseerd is in Zijn woord! Het boek behandeld de hoofdstukken van het Nieuwe Testament. Efeziërs 4:13 "totdat wij allen eenmaal komen tot eenheid des geloofs in den Zoon Gods en kennis van hem, een volwassen man worden en de gehele maat der volheid van Christus bereiken." Gods zegen! Apostel Arne Horn
This book deals with Christian Zionism, and in a wider sense with the phenomenon of Israelism. By Israelism, I mean a certain kind of literal reading of the Scriptures. God’s revealed plan for Israel and the Jewish people are construed by many in such a way that Jews are to receive a higher status or a lower place than all other nations. These two opposite positions have many gradations, from moderate to extreme. The most extreme consequences are glorification and degradation, idolization and hatred, Philo-Semitism and Anti-Semitism. Christian Zionism Examined emphatically asserts that the Bible provides absolutely no basis for this literal way of reading and understanding the prophetic word in the Holy Scriptures. God’s promises of redemption and judgment to Old Testament Israel have never meant to be solely fulfilled to one particular ethnic people and geographical area; i.e., only modern Israel or only the Jewish people. Redemption and judgment are fulfilled in Christ. In him, those promises (or predictions) have received a final meaning for all nations, essentially for all creation. The completion of that fulfillment will take place upon his return; in the perfection of his kingdom or his universal rule; and in the final judgment.
In this work, Richard Weikart explains the revolutionary impact Darwinism had on ethics and morality. He demonstrates that many leading Darwinian biologists and social thinkers in Germany believed that Darwinism overturned traditional Judeo-Christian and Enlightenment ethics, especially the view that human life is sacred. Many of these thinkers supported moral relativism, yet simultaneously exalted evolutionary 'fitness' (especially intelligence and health) to the highest arbiter of morality. Darwinism played a key role in the rise not only of eugenics, but also euthanasia, infanticide, abortion and racial extermination. This was especially important in Germany, since Hitler built his view of ethics on Darwinian principles, not on nihilism.
This thesis reviews and utilizes concepts from cognitive psychology, developmental psychology and game design to bring forth a number of design principles for educational games that may improve students' motivation to learn. Its main contribution is a novel approach to serious game design, namely envisioning play and learning as a restructuring practice. This change of perspective, from a formal game design approach (focused on rules and regulations) towards a more activity-centered approach (focused on process and style), may help designers to leverage the motivational potential of games, in order to make education more engaging to students.
