... and then Jesus forbids them to tell anyone about him (MK 8:29-30). Another example of silence portrayed in the Gospel of Mark is the beginning of chapter 15 when Pilate asked Jesus quite a bit of questions and Jesus never replied to him, which shocked Pilate (MK 15:2-5). Although the Gospels of Mark and ... are divine plan, justice to the lowly, and Jesus' normalcy. The first theme in the Gospel of Luke is divine plan which is obviously displayed in chapter one when the angel Gabriel came to Mary to tell her about her pregnancy. Mary was confused but Gabriel explained everything about th...

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... no moral distinctions, the word 'hell,' as understood today, is not a happy translation." The meaning given today to the word "hell" is that portrayed in Dante's Divine Comedy and Milton's Paradise Lost, which meaning is completely foreign to the original definition of the word. The idea of a "hell" of firey torment, dates back long before Dante or Milton. The Grollier Universal Encyclopedia ... texts in which these original words appear and, with open mind, thereby to arrive at an understanding of their true significance. So, what is the 'Lake of Fire" of Revelation chapter 20? First l...

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