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Essays 211 - 240
Joseph the presentation of their early beginnings is told merely through the fact we see Mary pregnant and we watch the struggling...
pronouncements express a similar orientation, they are actually quite different because the positive form encompasses a "greater e...
born a Jew and lived under the Jewish law and system (Galatians 4:4). * Jesus life was characterized by service and humility (Phil...
where there is only anguish, grief and regret. The clear message of this passage is that the true believer, the true Christian, is...
we have worked all night long but have caught nothing. Yet if you say so, I will let down the nets" (Luke 5: 5). Peter and his men...
Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you" (Ma...
Jesus was more divine than he was human (Meacham 40). The issue that underscored the early ecumenical councils, once incidental ri...
Testament, these words generally refer to "service associated with the work done in the temple."6 In the New Testament, these word...
his name, this is clearly meant for his disciples as it will be them who will be in greater danger and not Jesus....
public inconveniencey, it is the will of God... that the established government be obeyed--and no longer" (1755). Christ was also...
There can be no doubt that Stowe intended her novel to be more of a religious than sociopolitical text. It includes close to 100 ...
thus, can also be seen as representing motherhood and domesticity. From this point on the boys become increasingly more primitive....
of Jesus Christ, who is accepted by nearly everyone maybe not as the Son of God but as the founder of Christianity. According to ...
The Catholic Catechism explains that the sacraments are the visible signs of the mystery of salvation with salvation being the hid...
Trinity was revealed throughout Scripture. He is an integral part of everything that was done and said. It is through the Spirits ...
King of the Jews. Mark places more emphasis on what Jesus did than what He said. He saw Jesus as a powerful servant of God. Luke s...
which set the family in a state of poverty (Hooker, 1996). Mohammeds family was from the Hashim clan, which was one of the poorer ...
are the various traumatic events Christ endures from the Garden of Gethsemane until the Crucifixion. They are broken down into fo...
God. Even people who do miracles or cast out demons or who prophecy will automatically enter the Kingdom of God. Jesus never said ...
This essay discusses verses in Matthew 26. This section begins right after Jesus has been teaching to the people but now He begins...
Son. Joseph was a carpenter in a small village. Nazareth was a farming village but it was also a hub for the market which made i...
widespread revolt in 4 BC, indicating that General Varus burned town and crucified as many of two thousand men a day (Claiborne 73...
therefore, offers interpretation of them through various reflections, narratives, and discourses (John, 2003). The first sign is t...
slapped him and said, "Prophesy to us, Christ, Who hit you?" All Gospel accounts agree that Jesus was brutalized at this point, bu...
thematic content. The whole emphasis of the narrative in Matthew is on scriptures being fulfilled via the life of Jesus (Wright, 1...
This book review pertains to Donald Kraybill's Upside Down Kingdom, in which the author focuses on the radical nature of the mini...
but with the passage of time and the emergence of Christ, this necessitated that their ideology allow for both Jew and Greek to me...
This essay cites a specific book, Fundamental Theology by Heinrich Fries. The writer summarizes Chapters 33 and 34. Major themes, ...
be dealt with again at the second council in Ephesus and again at Chalcedon (Christianity in Egypt 1997). This eventually led to w...
churches, though many were convened in his name. Most of the accounts of Jesus in the Bible talk about large crowds of people that...