Introduction Christianity has been a subject of much debate and controversy for many years. There have been many theologians who have studied Christianity and created doctrine of their own interpretation of Scripture. The doctrines that have caused much debate and have been argued for centuries would be Calvinism and Arminianism. There has been opposing views by churches and other theologians ... 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 wh...

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... also dramatises the mercy of Christ's teachings. Initially Angelo is presented as a sexual puritan who shows a staunch dedication to severe laws. Shakespeare has used him as an example of the strict laws of the Old Testament. However, by allowing him to give in to temptation and strong sexual urges he becomes treacherous, hypocritical and adulterous (in the eyes of the New ... the laws of the Old Testament. "Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, foot for foot" Exodus 21:24. He does not achieve the balance between mercy and law. Angelo's rigid interpretation of the law with no understanding of h...

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... books in the Writings are supposed to be the work of prophets working in a normal manner. (Rosenberg pg. 36) Although most Jews lived by the laws of the Torah, the interpretation of the Torah is what caused the Jewish people to divide into three major sections: the Sadducees, Essenes, and Pharisees. The Sadducees believed in the Torah and only the Torah ... in an oral Torah (which would later become the Talmud) that consisted of various laws and observances and methods of interpreting the written Torah. The Pharisees prided themselves on their strict conformity to the law as they interp...

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... from the heart, the evil thoughts, murder, adultery, unchastity, theft, false witness, and blasphemy. These are what truly defile a person, not the unwashed hands. In Matthew's gospel Pharisee's are a very strict Jewish people. They believe that Judaism's main focus was around the law and the observance of the law. There was mutual hostility between the Pharisee's and Jesus. John the Baptist ... 's death, the focus seems to be more on the Sadducee's and the scribes for that event. This focus on the Pharisees like this goes hand in hand with Matthew's Jewish interpretation of Jesus's life...

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