This Week In The News
Current Events
by Norbert Link
We report on the ongoing global economic upheaval due to President Trump’s tariffs policies which, if they go wrong, will have devastating consequences for the world AND the USA. We are addressing, what seem to be, further violations of the Trump administration in the area of immigration and publish articles dealing with the speculation that Trump might stay in office beyond ending his second term.
We are addressing Europe’s “lust for war”; closed borders between Austria and Hungary; and the success of Germany’s AfD and Friedrich Merz’s continuing struggles.
We conclude with interesting articles on robots and the stars. Please view in this context our new StandingWatch program, titled, “The Glory of God in Our Time.”
Throughout this section, we have underlined pertinent statements in the quoted articles, for the convenience and quick overview of the reader.
Editorial
Called to Work
God has not called us to a social club, but to work! We are not called to be independent, but to be part of the one body. We have a common work to do, a spiritual Work, as Christ says in John 6:27: “Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set His seal on Him.”
This Work consists of believing in Christ, doing the things He said, fulfilling the commission He gave us.
The world engages in works that will pass away. Many succeed in this world, but what they have accumulated will be destroyed. They are not called to do God’s Work.
But you and I are called to do God’s Work. Our work will never pass away. We can help others to recognize God’s Ways. We can help others to change their lives through repentance and obedience to God. This kind of work bears fruit that will never pass away.
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How important is the correct understanding about the “Immortal Soul”? (Part 1)
On the Britannica website we read the following:
“Human beings seem always to have had some notion of a shadowy double that survives the death of the body. But the idea of the soul as a mental entity, with intellectual and moral qualities, interacting with a physical organism but capable of continuing after its dissolution, derives in Western thought from Plato and entered into Judaism during approximately the last century before the Common Era and thence into Christianity. In Jewish and Christian thinking it has existed in tension with the idea of the resurrection of the person conceived as an indissoluble psychophysical unity. Christian thought gradually settled into a pattern that required both of these apparently divergent ideas. At death the soul is separated from the body and exists in a conscious or unconscious disembodied state. But on the future Day of Judgement souls will be re-embodied (whether in their former but now transfigured earthly bodies or in new resurrection bodies) and will live eternally in the heavenly kingdom.”
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