Essays 121 - 150
For example, when Jesus metaphorically gives Peter the "keys to the kingdom," Jesus refers to a verse in Isaiah that speaks of the...
acceptable sacrifice capable of redeeming the sins of humanity. My personal beliefs (meaning the beliefs of the student, not thi...
Father, as being from above, and other such phrases (Kasper, 1978, p. 173). Jesus was in all ways like us with one great exceptio...
little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. I tell you the truth, anyone ...
phrase could mean the individual had a special relationship with God, therefore, they must learn the meaning of this in terms of J...
the context of Jewish salvation history (Sanders 88). Nevertheless, the issue of Jesus supernatural birth, as related in the gospe...
of their faith. During the 1970s, the Watchtower shows that JWs leadership took a more conciliatory stance towards shunning family...
teaches that "all of the Law and the Prophets rest on the command to love God and neighbor (22:34-40)" (Kozar 78). Matthew 22:34...
cognitively prepare the hearer for the evangelical message of salvation that will soon follow and the third interpretation is that...
Later in Luke, we read "The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men . . . ." (Luke 24:7). In the Acts of the Apo...
healers could be executed (Healing Rays, 2007). In 1951, the Church made spiritual healing legal again but it is still tarnished w...
a core belief of Christianity that one can find on any Christian Church Web site, regardless of whether that organization is a mai...
in their fathers footsteps. Like Jesus, John began preaching at the age of 30 (Catholic Online, 2007). His location was the banks...
In twelve pages this paper discusses what should be known about Jesus in a review of 4 films and 4 gospels on Christ. Twelve sour...
as director. This Catholic perspective is also quite evident in the fact that Mary, the mother of Jesus, is the most prevalent c...
the "restored kingdom of David" (Hahn 28). Matthews Gospel perfectly typifies what Augustine meant when he commented that the "N...
well as with the earthly King David, through Joseph, who acknowledges Jesus as his son (Brown, 1997). Joseph is in the line of Dav...
edification of readers who seek, like him, to try to deepen their understanding of Christianity. In accomplishing this task, Gre...
is now dead (Jesus - The Quranic View, 2003). Those who would consider Jesus to be God, the Son of God, or part of a trinity are ...
Jesus was found in the Temple teaching Priests and Scribes about the law (Scott, 2000). At age 30, Jesus began His ministry. He g...
Jesus is an historical figure. He lived on earth, He called His disciples, He died, and He rose from the dead. The events reported...
Jesus was both human and Divine as is reflected in many parts of the New Testament. This paper discusses the account of the Last S...
are knowledgeable about one fact of Christianity that the Christian worshipper is not, there is limited historical facts to establ...
"the Son of Your handmaid" (Longhenry, 2004). Additionally, John and Peter address Mary as "mother" numerous times during the film...
For example, Bostick (1935) makes copious use of footnotes, drawing on the works of Plato and Xenophon, who were two of Socrates d...
that Luke did write this text himself and he did associate the birth of Jesus with a secular historical event. These debates have...
into the boat but He also sat down in the boat, thus, carrying on the tradition (Kulikovsky, 1999). The audience stood at the shor...
(Stedman, 1992). Jesus was the only perfect human being ever born. As such, it was only through His perfection that man could be ...
(Lehigh, n.d.). There would be no churches and no charitable organizations (Lehigh, n.d.). And, there would be no promise of etern...
Aquinas goes on to explain Christs sacrifice through suffering in that it came out of Christs love and obedience for mankind. This...