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Essays 181 - 210
offer mankind salvation through faith. He was put to death and rose from the dead. Aside from this the various Christian faiths po...
Jesus was more divine than he was human (Meacham 40). The issue that underscored the early ecumenical councils, once incidental ri...
Luke 2.1 there is also the reference to the birth taking place in the time of the census of Quirinius, this was in 6 CE2, however ...
Testament, these words generally refer to "service associated with the work done in the temple."6 In the New Testament, these word...
He was the promised Messiah: The woman said to Him, "I know the Messiah is coming" (who is called Christ). "When He comes, He wil...
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...
great humility and eagerness to do as God wishes (Luke 1:39). She then travels to visit Elizabeth where she stays for three months...
King of Salem (ancient Jerusalem) befriended Abraham and his men after their victory over those kings that had taken Sodom and Gom...
as his hero. Achilles Achilles is the greatest of the Greek heroes fighting against the Trojans. As the poem begins, the war ha...
a core belief of Christianity that one can find on any Christian Church Web site, regardless of whether that organization is a mai...
working class (Brown). Modern playwrights have expanded the conception of tragedy to include all walks of people in all circumstan...
"unclean spirits knew who Jesus was" (Davies 94). Jesus method of exorcism was to "cast out demons by the spirit of God" (Davies 9...
in their fathers footsteps. Like Jesus, John began preaching at the age of 30 (Catholic Online, 2007). His location was the banks...
Sacrificial leadership: Jesus sacrificed Himself for all of mankind (Chandra, 2004). Servant leadership is most often associated...
for Jesus to have gone into shock at that time. He was first beaten by the guards: "The men who were guarding Jesus began mocking...
age 12, Jesus was found in the Temple teaching Priests and Scribes about the law (Scott, 2000). In his very first chapter, Matthe...
born a Jew and lived under the Jewish law and system (Galatians 4:4). * Jesus life was characterized by service and humility (Phil...
pronouncements express a similar orientation, they are actually quite different because the positive form encompasses a "greater e...
where there is only anguish, grief and regret. The clear message of this passage is that the true believer, the true Christian, is...
my Beloved, with you I am well pleased (Luke 4:32) (Willimon, 2001, p. 7). The scene reminds the reader of the account of the crea...
sacrificed consorts who was killed by the Father Zeus after the fertility rite that coupled him with his Mother (Graves 89). Also ...
were buried in 1823, and John the Baptist, "who conferred the Aaronic Priesthood on Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery in Harmony, Pe...
thematic content. The whole emphasis of the narrative in Matthew is on scriptures being fulfilled via the life of Jesus (Wright, 1...
Joseph the presentation of their early beginnings is told merely through the fact we see Mary pregnant and we watch the struggling...
but with the passage of time and the emergence of Christ, this necessitated that their ideology allow for both Jew and Greek to me...
slapped him and said, "Prophesy to us, Christ, Who hit you?" All Gospel accounts agree that Jesus was brutalized at this point, bu...
therefore, offers interpretation of them through various reflections, narratives, and discourses (John, 2003). The first sign is t...
accompanies a mortal existence, one will reap the benefits of living a pure life; indeed, whatever trials and tribulations one exp...
his name, this is clearly meant for his disciples as it will be them who will be in greater danger and not Jesus....