... to fluent reading of the text and an easy understanding of it. The writer of this section uses specific circumstances in the text to paint a picture for the audience such as "An eye for an eye and A tooth for a tooth" or "when someone slaps you on the right cheek, turn the other as well". The reader of this text can picture Jesus sitting on top of a mountain saying these verses to ... wrongs do not make a right and that people should not fight back when violence is brought upon them "when someone slaps you on the right cheek, turn the other as well". She said that people need to go out ...

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... , there was a great deal of dashing about on the first Easter. First, according to John, Mary Magdalene came and she, seeing the stone rolled away and the tomb empty, started running - away, as it turned out, not so much because she had seen a mountain lion, but more to alert the others. In the predawn darkness, she runs to tell the rest of the disciples that Jesus" body is gone. Her shock ... ran to an EMS van got some water to wash his face and eyes out and then the camera recorded something that my students didn't understand at first, he ran back toward the cloud and the buildings. Th...

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... Calvinism and Arminianism. There has been opposing views by churches and other theologians that has caused much controversy over these two doctrines. Calvinism is based on the theological beliefs and teachings by John Calvin and Arminianism is based on the views of Jacobus Arminius. Arminius was once a strict Calvinist who studied under John Calvin and later studies led him to doubt and reject many ... ; Romans 10:9 "If you declare with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved" Conditional Election "God chose the elect on...

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... of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell?" (Matt. 23::33) "Have faith in God, I tell you the truth, if anyone says to this mountain, "go throw yourself into the sea," and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him." (Mark 11: 22-23) "Do not give dogs what is sacred; do ... were supposedly present. Again, these and other statistics should not be taken too seriously; behind them is the imagination of a storyteller, not the figures of a census taker. ( Gabel, Wheeler, & York, 1986, p. 21) In reference to the motive of the m...

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