A Travel Log Into Eternity

>> Et accedens Jesus locutus est eis, dicens: Data est mihi omnis potestas in caelo et in terra: euntes ergo docete omnes gentes: baptizantes eos in nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti: docentes eos servare omnia quaecumque mandavi vobis: et ecce ego vobiscum sum omnibus diebus, usque ad consummationem saeculi. Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” Da trat Jesus auf sie zu und sagte zu ihnen: Mir ist alle Vollmacht gegeben im Himmel und auf der Erde. Darum geht und macht alle Völker zu meinen Jüngern; tauft sie auf den Namen des Vaters und des Sohnes und des Heiligen Geistes und lehrt sie, alles zu befolgen, was ich euch geboten habe. Und siehe, ich bin mit euch alle Tag...

YOLO stands for "you only live once" (comparable to "la vida es una") and has been THE life motto of the youth a few years ago. The basic idea behind it is that you can do whatever you want because there is no consequences. You want to buy overpriced clothes? YOLO. You want to jump off a cliff? YOLO. I think you get the idea. The funny thing is that this is not even a revolutionary idea; it has been around for centuries. Even King Solomon in his life went through a phase of YOLOism. >>  So I commend the enjoyment of life, because there is nothing better for a person under the sun than to eat and drink and be glad. Then joy will accompany them in their toil all the days of the life God has given them under the sun. << (Ecclesiastes 8:15 NIV) But is this mentality really the best for us? Obedience - Are You a Cage-Guy or Railing-Guy I have talked to many people about faiths and beliefs. It is usually the atheists or the super-liberal Christia...

"The Atonement - brought to you by Jesus Christ - Gives you more Power than Lifting Crosses" I know, I know...it is a special kind of humor, but with something like this the Atonement could be advertised if it was a fitness program. In fact, it will give you power and strength, just like a fitness program. But then, it also is completely different because it does not make you look shredded, it allows you to overcome weaknesses and live forever. First of all, what is the Atonement?! As you might have noticed, I spell this word with a capital A. I do this because this single event has changed the history of mankind forever and - to be honest - even beyond forever. The Atonement allows us to overcome the consequences of death and opens the gate for us that brings us back to our Heavenly Father who is the Eternal God of the universe. Also, I think this is a good time to correct my previous statements. This event has not just happened all by itself, no, but it has been performe...

Have you ever done something and later regretted it terribly?! Have you ever said sorry to someone you have done wrong?! Guilt is a feeling that keeps us in a dark mental state where we feel disconnected from God. In this sense, guilt is something awful. But guilt can also do great things in our lives. Without the feeling of guilt, how would we know that we have done something wrong?! Some people say this feeling we get when we do something wrong is our moral compass or, as I would call it, the Light of Christ . Most importantly, we should never suppress this feeling because it serves a divine purpose. Instead, we should develop a growth mindset to figure out what we have done wrong and then try to not do it again. In the New Testament, we read of a story where a woman is brought before Jesus. The men who caught her claimed she was guilty of adultery. Let's see how Jesus resolves the situation: >> “Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.” ...

>> And God formed mankind, in the likeness of gods he created [them]; male and female He created them. << (Gen 1:27 own translation) When we were created in the beginning, God made a decision to create us in a way that resembles Him. Now, let us not too much focus on how literal the events from Genesis were, but instead let us try to see behind the words and understand the symbology. To put it in the way of the Jewish scholars, we want to discover the white fire while studying the black fire. The black fire is the words of the scripture, the white fire is the blank space between the lines that carry the actual message. May the Holy Spirit help us to fill these spaces with wisdom. First of all, if we were made in God's image , why are we in such a miserable state of mortality and being plagued by pain and sickness?! The reason for this is an event that most people know as "the fall". While Adam and Eve, the first human beings created in the story of the Boo...

What is the Book of Mormon ? One thing I can say for sure: it is not what people expect when they think about classical religious texts. Unlike the biblical texts, the Book of Mormon - or short BoM - has not been written by ancient people, passed on continuously for generations, and translated to modern languages by scholars. Well, partially those things are true, let me explain. Yes, the BoM has been written by ancient prophets and historians, and yes, it has been passed on for generations, BUT no scholars were involved when a young man from New York obtained the ancient records to translate them. He, at that point, was as far away from being a scholar as I am from being the Catholic pope (which I truly am not, believe me). Most of his life, until these days, young Joseph Smith had spent working on his parents' farm and had only received a very basic education in school. But how could a frontier boy from the 19th century translate ancient records, written in a language that is s...