The New Testament reveals without breaking the tradition of revelation

“Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord” – Julia Ward Howe, The Battle Hymn of the Republic Here is the basic Christian paradigm: God became flesh in form of a human-being called Jesus who died at the cross and was buried in a cave from where he was resurrected and

Summary of some key points from my advanced thoughts within my Judeo-Buddhist philosophy in a few bullet points

This article is intended for those who read the basic works on my Judeo-Buddhist philosophy, but not my work Deep In the Ocean Is a Hidden Treasure (Manderscheid 2023). I hope that this summary helps to give an overview about the very key points of my latest thoughts. Now what can we say to those

A personal relationship with God is more important than being member of any denomination

A woman told on the channel of “Back to Jerusalem”: “To young people, I think it’s so easy in our society to focus on yourself, you know, it’s so easy to try and make your life what you think it should be, and especially if you know Jesus it has to be bigger than ourselves

God is oneness and we are connected to Him with our soul

In the Likutei Etzot it is written that it is necessary to distance oneself strongly from the advice of ordinary people, since most of them are bad and very flawed advice [Timo Schmitz: La vedra i los yervos – Kual es el antidote para el koraje?. 2 October 2020]. It is clear that just because

Religious conservatism as a chance or constraint for progress?

In a secularized world, religion is often negatively connoted and liberal forces tend to see religion as a boundary for a liberal world. One argument which is often brought forth is the alleged radicalism of believers and the normative character of churches which is said not to be according to our times anymore. As such,

Theurgy in Philosophy?

Theurgy and Philosophy became closely related to each other among Late Platonists, the term ‘theurgy’ being first recorded (as far as we know it) in the Chaldean Oracles, “a collection of hexameters revealed by the gods, of theological and technical content (ritual instructions), highly appreciated by philosophers as texts of inspired wisdom, a poetic theology

Religion is not finalized but a dynamic process of evolving and reshaping thoughts

It is not uncommon that people in East Asia believe in several teachings, so a single believer might be polyreligious to a certain degree: For instance, one can adopt elements of the Buddhist and the Daoist teaching at the same time. When asking where we are from, one can put the Dao into the foreground,

[PDF] Timo Schmitz: “For wisdom is a defence” (2023)

A collection of my articles which I published in English in the first two months of the year on this blog are now available as free E-Book in PDF-file. The collection is called: “For wisdom is a defence“. Feel free to download below! I’m also curious about your feedbacks.

Remembrance and Observance: How we create our worldviews!

In this world we find both, the thing itself and its relationship and there is not a single thing without a relationship as everything is related to something else and nothing exists independently except God – only God exists for Himself. But everything which exists shares a part with the divine. Now how do we

On Genesis 1:1

Genesis 1:1 informs us that in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth, which is the very first phrase of the Torah. As pointed out plenty of times before in my previous articles, God is comparable to the Dao. “Like the Dao, He is a force that can create anything with deliberation. Therefore,