Manfred Davidmann

Manfred Davidmann is an internationally well-known and respected scientist and consultant, and author of a number of books and reports which have had and are having considerable impact, playing their part in improving the quality of life and the standard of living, worldwide. His work usually breaks new ground and opens up new understanding and is written in meaningful and easily understood language. Outstanding is that his work is generally accepted as factual, objective and unbiased.

More than 7 million copies of his reports have been downloaded from the Solhaam website so far, and have changed and are changing the way in which people live, think and behave.

The Twenty Most Popular Downloads

• Style of Management and Leadership

• Family, Sex and the Individual; Women's Liberation, Feminism and Community

• How the Human Brain Developed and How the Human Mind Works

• ORIGIN OF CHRISTIANITY and JUDAISM

• MOTIVATION: Summary

• Using Words to Communicate Effectively

• The Will to Work: What People Struggle to Achieve

• Meaning and Significance of the Names of God in Genesis

• Directing and Managing Change

• Inflation, Balance of Payments and Currency Exchange Rates
  Including: How Base (General) Interest Rates determine Share Prices and Pensions

• Multinational Operations: Transfer Pricing and Taxation

• Organising

• Causes of Antisemitism

• Co-operatives and Co-operation: Causes of Failure, Guidelines for Success

• History Speaks: Monarchy, Exile and Maccabees

• The Meaning of Genesis: Creation, Evolution and the Origin of Evil

• Social Responsibility, Profits and Social Accountability

• Work and Pay, Incomes and Differentials: Employer, Employee and Community

• Struggle for Freedom: The Social Cause-and-Effect Relationship

• COMMUNITY ECONOMICS: Ownership and Limited Liability

Books by Manfred Davidmann

• ISLAM: Basis - Past - Present - Future (Second Edition)   NEW
  
  
• ISLAM: Basis - Past - Present - Future (First Edition)
  
  
• God and People: The Social Laws and Social System
  Underlying Judaism, Christianity, Islam and Democracy
  
  
• THE HUMAN MIND AND HOW IT WORKS:
  Group Minds in Action: How the Human Group Mind
  Shapes the Quality of Our Life and Living
  
  
• COOPERATIVES AND COOPERATION:
  Causes of Failure, Guidelines for Success
  
  
• Management and Leadership:
  Local, National, Multinational (Global),
  Principles and Practice
  
  
• The Real World in Which We Live:
  The Social Rules and Social System under Which We Suffer, Struggle, Survive and Prosper
  
  
• Messianic Struggle: The Worldwide Struggle for a Good and Secure Life for All, Here and Now
  
  
• Judaism: Basis - Past - Present - Future, Part 1
  
  
• Judaism: Basis - Past - Present - Future, Part 2
  
  
• Christianity: Basis - Past - Present - Future
  
  
• Towards a Better Future
  
  
• Chemical Engineering, Chemical Plant Contracting,
  Chemical Industry.
  Work and Pay, Work and Remuneration of Directors,
  Community Leadership and Management
  
  
• Social and Economic Problems of Israel and Democratic Countries
  Policies for a Better Future
  
  

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Theme of the Week (Current Events, Current Problems)

• Themes    (listed by content)
  
  
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  Previous themes:
  
  
• 'The Human Brain and the Human Mind'
  
  
• 'Multinational (Global) Operations,   and
  Government Of, By, and For the People'
  
  
• 'Israel and The Social Laws and Social System of the Pentateuch'
  
  
• 'Family's Role and Life in the Real World;
  Protecting, and Caring for, the Next Generation;
  Causes of Social Break-up'
  
  

Theme:

'Christianity at the Crossroads, at the Final Parting of the Ways'

Jesus Taught: The God-given Social Laws and Social System

The social laws and social system of the Pentateuch* ensure freedom and material independence and provide a good life of high quality here and now, backed by effective social security. No one may oppress or exploit another and all are equal, as a matter of God-given law.

See     The God-given Human Rights, Social Laws and Social System.

Jesus taught that all the social laws and the social system of the Pentateuch* had to be kept, that belief and practice included and had also to include the Ten Commandments and the Good Government (Kingship) laws.

The Ten Commandments underlie freedom, independence and strength to oppose and resist oppression.

The Good Government (Kingship) laws lay down that those in positions of trust, responsibility or authority must not oppress people and also forbid personal gain from the misuse of authority or position. Those in authority must not be promiscuous and must not amass wealth.

See     ORIGIN OF CHRISTIANITY and JUDAISM     about What Jesus Actually Taught

The Pentateuch's* Social Cause-and-Effect Relationship is a scientific law which applies to all without exception and at all times. It clearly states that increasingly disregarding the laws (rules of behaviour) results in greater suffering and oppression, increasingly behaving according to the laws results in greater freedom, liberty, independence and a better life. The prophets knew and understood this relationship, and predicted accordingly, just as we now know and understand it. The consequences of keeping or not keeping the Pentateuch's* laws are inescapable. What happens to one is in the end the inevitable result of one's own behaviour.

In     The God-given Human Rights, Social Laws and Social System     see section on 'Unavoidable Consequences of One's Behaviour'.

The Social Cause-and-Effect Relationship is also listed (in biblical language and in plain English) in Appendix 4 of     Struggle for Freedom: The Social Cause-and-Effect Relationship,    with detailed references to the Pentateuch* text.

The Catholic Church Preaches (Teaches)

Paul acted on behalf of the rich and powerful when he proclaimed that those in authority were God's representatives on earth and had to be obeyed, and that some of the Pentateuch's* social laws and social system did not have to be kept. What Paul said and put forward apparently became official Christian doctrine and is still taught today. But it is neither God's word nor is it according to what Jesus taught.

See     ORIGIN OF CHRISTIANITY and JUDAISM     about What Actually Happened and Later Changes

Hence, according to the Social Cause-and-Effect Relationship, the Christian establishment condemns Christians to unavoidable harsh and inescapable consequences, to suffering and hardships, in measure with the extent to which they follow the ideology of Paul which the Catholic Church teaches and preaches.

And, when looking at Genesis Chapter 3 (Adam and Eve in Garden of Eden) we see that this is apparently interpreted by the Catholic Church as if it implied some kind of personal guilt. What we are being told in teachings about 'original sin' or a 'fallen humanity' appears to be: 'Do not blame the Church (its doctrine, its teachings, its hierarchy), the government, or the oppressor, for the sufferings and hardships of your lives, blame yourself.'

See     Social Policies (Doctrine) of the Roman Catholic Church: An Evaluation

So it appears that the teachings of the religious hierarchy condemn their Christian believers to sufferings and hardships. At the same time the hierarchy seems to expect believers to blame themselves for the consequences of following the hierarchy's teachings.

Here are just a few isolated examples from the Church's social teachings:

The Pentateuch's* right to social security enables the recipient to remain an independent breadwinner, to remain the master of his fate. The Church replaces the 'right' to effective social security, with 'charity', stating

the more fortunate ... should place their goods more generously at the service of others.

Charity can be used to exploit the needs of the needy by making the recipient indebted to, and depending on, the giver for survival.

In the context of management, government and church-state relations, participation means participating in decision-making.

But it seems that to the Church it is rulers who decide, that there is no question of participating in decision-making, of democratic decision-making by the people. This the Church shows by defining the word 'participation' to mean

participating (taking part) in activities with other people.

Participating in work being done or in community groups is a very different matter from participating in making the decisions.

As said already, Paul acted on behalf of the rich and powerful when he proclaimed that those in authority were God's representatives on earth and had to be obeyed, and that some of the Pentateuch's* social laws and social system did not have to be kept. What Paul said and put forward apparently became official Christian doctrine and is still taught today. But it is neither God's word nor is it according to what Jesus taught.

See     Social Policies (Doctrine) of the Roman Catholic Church: An Evaluation

and see     Church and State, Government and Religion: Judaism, Christianity and Islam

Sources with Short Descriptions

*    Added:  Manfred Davidmann's definition of Pentateuch:

"Pentateuch, part of the Bible. Also called 'The Five Books of Moses' (namely Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy). Also called 'Torah'."

(See   Church and State, Government and Religion: Judaism, Christianity and Islam

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