In our everyday life we hold people accountable for the consequences of the choices they make, assuming they made them out of free will. Generally we praise and punish them for respectively the good and the bad they do. When someone does anything not out of free will, but, for example, under pressure or by […]
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So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God (Romans 8:8). What does it mean to be unable to please God? Does it mean we are unable not to sin? Are we unable to choose by ourselves to seek God or to accept the gift of salvation? Listen to the parable of the
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By faith alone you can be saved. That is a statement you often hear and it is Biblical (Romans 3:28). But what is this faith? Do we just have to believe that God exists? Or that Jesus died on a cross? And how do we actually know that we truly believe? A lot of books
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Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand? (Job 26:14) A tropical thunderstorm in Suriname makes me feel small and insignificant. Every thunderclap makes me realise I and everything I own can be destroyed in a second. And
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Facebook is one of the best-known social media platforms of our time. In 2014, more than 864 million people logged in every day. Many young people (and also the elderly) that I speak to are online for hours every day. They scroll, read messages, look at pictures and post messages themselves. I heard from a
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