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    The King Jesus Gospel gets right to the point, we live in a salvation culture world. We need the Gospel culture to return. The true Gospel is Jesus, His story, which is every story. The story of the Bible and Scripture does not exist without Jesus. The story of Israel is completed in Jesus. In the beginning was God, He made a temple, we call it Earth. He made mankind to govern this temple, we failed. The first Adam fell, he was unable to fulfill his purpose. Throughout history many others…

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    World Religions Essay

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    Coming from a Presbyterian background, I’ve had a fairly limited knowledge of most other religions. However, after coming to Webb in sixth grade I began to study many of the other religions in my history classes. Freshman year in World History we spent a brief amount of time learning about the origins of the five largest religions; Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Hinduism is a development of the religion brought to India by the Aryans in around 1500 B.C. These Aryans…

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    Matthew 16: 13-20 Analysis

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    Introduction Who is Jesus? The answer is ultimately revealed in the highly controversial Matthew 16:13-20 passage through Peter’s confession and Jesus’ response. This paper, through careful analysis of the greek text and critical use of primary and secondary sources, draws out an exegesis of three essential themes found within the passage. Firstly, Peter’s confession of faith that Jesus is Messiah as being a fundamental basis for the building of a new community. Secondly, the highly debated…

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    the divinity and humanity of Jesus Christ, the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, the nature of God and the Trinity, the revelation and the salvation, influence the life of adherents by providing the core foundations to what they are to live their live based upon. Variants of these beliefs are expressed through differing religious perspectives such as Catholicism, Anglicism and Pentecostalism. The divinity and humanity of Jesus Christ is of the belief that Jesus is both fully human and…

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    passes by, artists paid less attention to spirituality, and they started adding other themes to art. I intend to show that The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci, represents the scene of The Last Supper of Jesus with his disciples. Da Vinci has depicted the horror in the 12 disciples’ faces when Jesus announced that one of them would betray him. The Elevation of the Cross by Peter Paul Rubens features a central panel that displays the difference…

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    Book Of Mark Analysis

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    Historical Context The book was written after Jesus death, between A.D 44-75, but believed to more closely to be approx A.D 67-68. At this time the audience may have been experiencing persecutions. The author of the book is not stated, but the consistent traditional view of the church history is that John Mark, the relative of Barnabas , is the author of the book. Papias (born between AD 50-60) appears to be the first witness of Mark indeed being the author of the book, along with others,…

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    Catholicism is based on the teachings of Jesus Christ the teachings of Jesus Christ make up the bible which is the basic scripture of the religion. The bible consists of sixty six books that are God’s inspired and authoritative words. God chose people to write thorough so it is not just their words but also the words of God himself. For Christians the bible is the teachings of the lord the sacred words of God. The history of the bible is that Christianity is based off history what happened in…

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    Zuqi Liu Bible 12 Mr Armstrong 12 November 2015 Reading Journal In chapter twelve and thirteen the author talked about Jesus’ death on the cross and the reality of resurrection. First of all, as far as I know all of us have sinned in the direction of God. However, God is infinitely holy and righteous. He have to punish the sinner, the Lawbreaker. If He failed to, then His law will not be law, for there isn't any legislation that is a legislation without a punishment. The punishment for breaking…

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    Faisalabad Research Paper

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    on the Sout″h-East by Okara, on the South Sahiwal & Toba Tek Singh, and on the west by Jhang. When Jesus began his teaching he opened by saying, “Blessed are the poor in Spirit” (Matthew 5:3). In another place, Jesus simply said, “Blessed are the poor.” His words in Matthew’s gospel refer to inner brokenness and humility as a blessed condition. Blessed means that they have God’s favor upon them. Jesus words in Luke’s gospel (which…

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    Adoptionism: Closed Canon

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    God, at some point, saw a worthiness in Jesus so He then “adopted” Him and bestowed power upon Him. At this point in time Patripassianism was an idea the church was trying to fight against; therefore by bringing distinction to the roles of God and Jesus appears to eliminates the thought of God suffering. The concept of God adopting a “worthy” Jesus and bestowing power upon Him was also formulated in an early Gnostic thought. Augustus: Ruling Emperor when Jesus was born, Augustus took it upon…

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