Beatitudes Essay

Jesus Christ. The first time Matthew appear in the Holy Bible, he is in a tax booth on the main highway in Capernaum. According to Mary, “The site of Capernaum is on the northwest shore of the Sea of Galilee, about one mile east of the Mount of the Beatitudes” (1). Capernaum is the most important place for Jesus activities in…

African American and Christian would make life harder for others; they worry not just about slavery, but persecution. He persuaded that they should continue teaching about the love of God to future generations (King n.p.). What Jesus explained in the Beatitudes was that God blesses the persecuted because they seek after righteousness; their reward is Heaven (Matthew 5:10). Jesus referenced that the reason why people persecuted Christians; due to sin, humanity lost its faith in God; consequently,…

Throughout The Inferno, the first section in Dante 's three part epic poem The Divine Comedy, there are many examples of symbolism. This is seen in a variety of things. From the use of the three animals that Dante meets to the relationship between Dante and Virgil. However, the most prominent use of symbolism in this epic poem is Dante 's use of the journey through hell as a symbol of every man and woman 's own personal darkness. This is the darkness where they begin to sin. Only, in hell, their…

His ideas on balance can be found by analyzing Jesus’s beatitudes from the Sermon on the Mount. According to Jesus, the summum bonum is to be, as he says, “blessed” (New Revised Standard Version, Matthew 5. 3-11). Being blessed to Jesus is the equivalent of having natural love to Dante, being virtuous to Aristotle…

learn how they can be great leaders. The scriptures within Matthew 5-7 contain many impactful skills that when practiced will build successful leaders who motivate, empower and build others. Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount begins in Matthew 5 with the Beatitudes. Matthew 5:3, “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven” (NIV). The leader who is poor is spirit is not full of pride. Pride makes it easy for us to not focus our worship…

The modern political history of the United States has been plagued by infighting between two major groups of American politics: the liberals and the conservatives. Liberals always seek to modernize and change, saying that change will make the country better and better. Meanwhile, conservatives believe that maintaining the status quo and even returning to “the good old days” would be the best path for the country. In The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood, a Canadian author with liberal…

The Sermon on the Mount is from Matthew chapters five thru seven. It describes how we should live our life in faith. How we should think, how we should speak and the actions we should take in our everyday lives. In this paper I will describe the differences between the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew versus Luke. As well as, the four main purposes the Sermon on the Mount as portrayed in the Gospel of Matthew. It was meant to; expose the people to their sin, guide the followers to Jesus,…

Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), a Fideist and a seventeenth-century French philosopher, states through his Wager that if we are unsure of God’s existence, then we should believe in Him rather than risk not believing in Him resulting in harsh consequences. David Hume (1711-1776), an Evidentialist and a Scottish Philosopher, states his skepticism of miracles through his beliefs. While Pascal states to believe in God through his Wager and Hume discusses his disbelief in miracles, both are sufficient and…

Hope is the thing that lets us keeping drudging on in this world. Hope allows the sun to rise each morning, lets seeds grow and bloom, makes each second worth living, and gives us the ability to look for the best in the worst situations. Without hope the world would be entirely different. Hope is an intrinsic emotion each human possesses and utilizes each and every day. The Oxford English Dictionary defines hope as “a person or thing that gives desire or promise for the future” (“Hope”, 1899).…

It could be argued that the main reason why so many of the accused were women is due to widespread misogyny in the 16th and 17th century. This can be supposed by the statistics of people persecuted during the period of 1550-1660. Trial records within Hungary and Essex show that the gender of a witch was traditionally a female as 91%-92% of women were convicted of being witches. Other larger countries such as France and Germany were thought to have 80% of female witches , whilst the Holy Roman…