... re-create and grow. Through our reading of Scripture and our encounters with other human beings, we can acquire all the knowledge that we need of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. The Bible is given its name because the writers of its several books were Gods organs in communicating his will to men, (Hebrew 4:12) it ... The word became a human being and full of grace and truth lived among us. We saw his glory (the glory of God) which he received as the Father's only Son. John spoke about him. Out of the fullness of his grace he has blessed us all, giving us one blessing after anoth...

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... true God's love and blessings. The Mosaic Covenant With the establishment of Abraham's seed came the necessity of preparing it to become a special people-the holy nation that God had promised. The covenant was made with Israel, the descendants of Abraham, through Moses, mediator between the great I Am and His people ... God, and Israel, to reciprocate, agrees to be faithful to God alone, establishing monotheism. In their pledge to God, Israel commits itself to living holy lives according to His law and to serve Him, but would they be able to meet the standard of their agreement? God's sys...

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... and religion. However, before one can do this, they must first obtain a general understanding of each text. The Bible and Qur'an are Holy Scriptures containing a collection of narratives and parables. The narratives teach about the origin of mankind and a belief in one all-powerful God, also ... Bible, Jesus is the central figure of the book. The Bible describes Jesus as the Son of God. The Trinity plays a big part in the Bible. The Trinity stands for the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Essentially, the Trinity stands for God is all three of these figures, stating ... that Jesus i...

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... very important and highly stressed. However, Christianity practices Trinitarian monotheism. The oneness of God in Christianity is sometimes misunderstood, because Christians believe that God is triune, the Holy Trinity (the father, the son and the Holy Spirit). Christianity's image of God is more complex than it is in Judaism and Islam. Because the adherents of these religions share one common ancestor named Abraham, they ... as the prophet before Muhammad, they feel like his message has been corrupted in Christianity. Judaism's prophet is Moses and Jesus is believed to be a human, not ...

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... prophets are true. 7) I believe with complete faith that the prophecy of Moses our teacher, peace upon him, was true, and that he was the father of the prophets - both those who preceded him and those who followed him. 8) I believe with complete faith that the entire Torah now in our ... fulfilled none of these messianic prophecies. CHRISTIANITY CONTRADICTS JEWISH THEOLOGY A. GOD AS THREE? The Christian idea of Trinity breaks God into three separate beings: The Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost (Matthew 28:19). Contrast this to the Shema, the basis of Jewish belief: "Hear O Israel, the L...

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... uplifted hands to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. I will give it to you as a possession" (Exodus 6.8). In the final plague, Pharaoh's son died so he finally relented and let the Israelites go. Egyptian pursuit was thwarted by God. Moses parted the Red Sea with God's help and the Israelites were ... Bethlehem. Ruth, in caring for her mother-in-law, met a man named Boaz, who later became her husband. They had a son named Obed, who was the father of Jesse, who was the father of David. God used this unknown woman, who was willing to do God's will, in the story of deliverance. Her grandso...

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... "serve" according to the Bible. In our society we have many different religions, as Australia is a very multicultural society. They all have their different ways of serving and holy spirits that they serve. I think that Christian's believe that The Ten Commandments are supposed to be guidelines that we try live our lives by. For example Commandment three states, ... means you should love everyone on earth as much as you love yourself. Treat them all, as you would like to be treated. STUDIES IN RELIGION "Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the ...

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... in the way of his plan and the Israelites continued to go against the Law. It is because of this that God decided to send his own son down to Earth to reveal his plan and establish his covenant forever. The covenant of Mount Sinai proved to be not enough as God wanted an even ... God. Jesus is the fullness of God's revelation because he is the definitive Word of God. There will be no word greater than him. Jesus is the "father's one perfect and unsurpassable word. In him everything is said and there will be not greater word after him". (CCC???). Jesus' covenant provides for us a ... on...

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... who pleased God." (New International Version Teen Study Bible) Hebrews 11: 7 says, "By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in holy fear built an ark to save his family. By his faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that comes by faith." (New International ... By faith Abraham, when God tested him, offered Isaac as a sacrifice. He who had received the promises was about to sacrifice his one and only son, even though God had said to him, "It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned." Abraham reasoned that God could raise the dead, .....

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... there are also differences. Christians believe that the Supreme Being is one personal/ supreme God who is Creator and Lord of everything that exists. He eternally exists as Triune God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Judaism believes that there is one god who reveals himself as person. He is creator, deliverer and lord of history. Islam worship Allah. They say that god is ... but the teaching of the rabbis are moral guidelines for the Jewish community. For Islam, Allah judges human beings for their actions in submitting to Allah, obeying the Shari"ah (holy law) and advancing the Ummah (pe...

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... death. Christianity and Islam believe the same but they both believe that God abandoned the "law" (Torah) because of the stubbornness of the Jews. In Christianity, God sent his only son Jesus Christ as a human being to teach the coming the kingdom and present a new covenant and a new path to heaven. Islam differs in that the main messenger of Islam was ... that Muslims should pledge allegiance to Allah (the Arabic word for "God"). They too believe that God chose Abraham to breed the Hebrews but they believe that his true first son, Ishmael, was destined to become Allah's chosen people. ...

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... Mesopotamia and one day a voice came from heaven and offered to make a deal with him. The Lord said to Abram, "Go forth from your native land and from your father's house to the land that I will show you. I will make you a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you shall be a blessing. I will bless those ... but the main ones being RA, Osiris and Horus. Osiris was the God of Egypt but when Osiris and his wife Isis have a son, Osiris was sent to the underworld and became God of the Dead and his son, Horus, became the first Pharaoh. At this point, monotheism ...

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... beating a Hebrew in the work-yard, and hastily killed the Egyptian with his bare hands. He then fled from Egypt to Midian, and found a wife with whom he had a son. Yet, Moses knew he would not settle down until he returned to Egypt to fulfill A God's prophecy. Important to Moses" development into a great leader was the time he was ... tending his father-in-law's flock up on the mountain of Horeb. Here, at the mountain of God, he came across a burning bush. Moses was amazed by the phenomenon and God spoke ... plague was what made the Pharaoh change his mind about the Hebrew's freedom. T...

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... in its original form was nothing but Islam. Jesus Christ taught his people that God is one and he has no father, no partner, and no son and that he Jesus Christ is his messenger. Christians believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God. Christians call Jesus Christ the Lord of the Universe and associated him with God. Quaran also confirms that ... shall not kill. The first few commandments deal with honoring God. There is even a commandment that deal with committing adultery. Judaism in its original form is just like Islam. The holy Quran was revealed to the Prophet Mohammad just as the T...

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... carved on a stele. Carved at the top was the picture of Hammurabi receiving the laws from the god Shamash. The stele was then placed in the temple of Marduk, a son of Shamash, (also considered as the main God of Babylon) for all to see. "The Babylonians had courts of justice; but they had also slaves. They had inns ... guilty of incest with his daughter, he shall be driven from the place (exiled). Code 157: If any one be guilty of incest with his mother after his father, both shall be burned." He had laws that dealt with the rights of children and the division of estates in the event of...

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... that those who heart is pure, God shall manifest himself to them. The idea goes on to say that those who strive to live in peace will be considered the son of God, for God is the God of Peace. If you are prosecuted for believing in the word of God you will be received by God in the kingdom of ... heaven. A belief that Matthew teaches is that God wants you to shine before men and show them that you are a righteous man of God and you give glory to our Father in heaven. For, God did not come to annul or get rid of the laws, but it is believed that he came to complete the laws and make all ...

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