It had a tremendous influence on the early church, the canonization of the New Testament, and continues today to influence the understanding of Christianity. ... In addition, Marcion, a radical exegete of Paul tinged with gnostic assumptions, founded a group and made the first attempt to create a closed canon of the New Testament. ... Reaction to gnostic concerns exerted a formative influence on the shape and content of Christian doctrine, views of tradition, New Testament canon, and ecclesiastical structure. ... In the story of Mary's encounter with the resurrected Jesus. ... Mary...

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There are a number of places in the New Testament where the term "church" (ekklesia) is clearly not used in the sense of a local congregation. ... As persons who acknowledge Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour, Christians are called to proclaim the Gospel in word and deed. ... Because the servant-hood of Christ entails suffering, it is evident, as expressed in the New Testament writings, that the witness of the Church will entail, for individuals and for the community, the way of the cross. The Church universal according to the New Testament is a mixture of wheat and tares, which brings us to w...

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Essentially, Luke is a narrative that depicts the incidents that occur in the life of Jesus. ... External testimony assumes common authorship of the gospel and Acts, and it may be maintained that the book of Acts was accepted into the New Testament canon because of its close association with the Gospel of Luke. ... The knowledge in the Old Testament can also give us an insight on the authorship of Luke. ... In Jerusalem Jesus anticipates encountering the hostility and violence appropriate to a prophet. ... This task could apply to the followers of Jesus today. ...

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When we speak of life beyond death, or of a resurrected body, or of a new heaven and a new earth, we speak in images, metaphors and parables" (Calvin). ... In brief, Christian hope enlivens rather than paralyzes human imagination and action in the direction of God's coming new heaven and new earth. ... Parousia means arrival or coming and refers in the New Testament to the coming of the crucified and risen Jesus in glory. ... He continues to come into the World and sacrament and in ever-surprising encounters of his presence among the hungry, the thirsty, the naked, and the imprisoned who ...

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Indeed, Mark is the New Testament historian who comes closest to witnessing the actual life of Jesus. ... As a result of its proximity to original sources, the Gospel of Mark has transformed from a book disregarded for its lowly prose to one of the most important books in the New Testament. ... Jesus goes to the wilderness, where Satan tests him for forty days, and Jesus emerges triumphant. ... Jesus notes his disciples' frequent misunderstandings of his message. ... Judas kisses Jesus, indicating to the priests Jesus' identity. ...

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Peter - mind you - was willing to even die for Jesus. ... Peter was hanging out with a crowd hostile to Jesus without being close to Jesus. ... Have you made Jesus your best friend as yet? ... How do we get close to Jesus? ... So keep short accounts with Jesus. ...

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Noting these facts, is it true that just because someone is gay that he or she will go to hell? ... A homosexual may be your best friend, your boss, your minister, your brother, your mother, or any of the hundreds of people that you encounter everyday. ...

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Until around 40 years ago, there was a strongly anti-Jewish consensus in the interpretation of Luke-Acts; the roots of this going back to Ferdinand Baur (1792-1860) and the Tubingen school of New Testament scholarship. ... Luke does relate what appear to be escalating emotional outbursts by unbelieving Jews throughout Acts in reaction to encounters with Christian disciples. ... Luke's motif here is not to draw attention to the cutting off of unbelieving Jews, since he has an understanding of the new Way (Acts 15:9). ... Those Jews rejecting Jesus, the Messiah, are no different from...

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NOTES Other poems by T. ... Lazarus: Jesus brought Lazarus, the brother of Mary and Martha, back from the dead by literally entering his tomb and bringing out the recently buried man alive (John 11.1-44). Jesus also tells a parable of how the poor man Lazarus went to heaven, and the rich man Dives to hell, and how Dives begged Abraham to send Lazarus back to warn his five brothers about damnation and was rebuked "if they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead" (Luke 16.19-31). 101. ...

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Since it first appeared on Korean soil and was nourished by the Korean philosophy of life, the new movement was naturally influenced to some extent by its environment. ... Finally, Mahayana Buddhists look forward to the arrival of a new Buddha (Maitreya) who will appear on earth at the last days to renovate the entire creation and bring inner peace to all mankind. ...

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., the raising of the dead in the last days) is the already accomplished resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.My aim in this paper is to explain and defend this basic view of resurrection. ... What the body does is provide the soul with a vehicle for action in the world and expression of intentions and desires; and the soul pr ovides the body with animation and direction 5For another thing, the theory seems a neat way of reconciling the traditional view that the general resurrection does not occur until the eschaton with Jesus' statement to the good thief on the cross, " Today you w...

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