... plans to be superior? Sadly, I confess that I am lured by the persuasion of popular wisdom and ods at times as well. But let us all seek repentance and confess that, "God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty" (I Cor. 1:27). Let us carry ... out pastoral ministry in such a way that the faith of the people would be not in the wisdom of men but in the power of God (I Cor. 2:5). A Scriptural Foundation ... The word "pastor" comes from the Greek poimena which ... ...

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... were no fast-food restaurants or hotels. A traveler's survival depended on hospitality. (Silver 60) God lets the reader know exactly what the sin of Sodom was and why He destroyed it. God uses the prophet Ezekiel to chastise His chosen people, the children of Israel (the Jews) about the sins that they committed when they broke the covenant (agreement) that had been set forth: 48 As I live, saith ... sexual act betwe! en two men (or a man and a woman) is sinful because they are committing fornication since they are not married. The Word of God doesn't stop there, however. He goes on to s...

• Word Count: 6914
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... medical knowledge and other things. Jewish beliefs include that God is the creator of all, and he is worthy of all praise (Tullock, 2002). God monitors humans and rewards good things and punishes evil. They also believe that they are God's chosen people. In no way is this meant to say that ... they are better than any specific group of people but they were chosen to study the Torah and to worship God only. The Jewish people rest on the Sabbath day, which begins at sundown on Friday ... evening. They celebrate Passover which to recall the deliverance of the Jews from Egypt. Currently the...

• Word Count: 2579
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... himself alive by eating locusts and wild honey and wore a rough garment of camel's hair, tied with a leathery girdle. What John is most famously known for is baptizing hence the name, John the Baptist. People would come from all over to be baptized by John. They would tell John their sins and John would baptize them. There were also people who did ... repentance. He felt that in order to receive Jesus as your Savior, John wanted the Jews to realize that they were sinners and had to repent of their sins. However, the Jews did not think they needed to be baptised, because they were the de...

• Word Count: 2547
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• Grade Level: High School

... It is fascinating to speculate about why this word was chosen to become special. Perhaps, it is because Isaiah employed the idea of the gospel in some of his Messianic prophecies. Or perhaps it comes from the connection between a teacher and his pay. Thus the gospel is not only the message but the reward also. The reward being salvation. However, it could simply be that ... well as forward to the impact of the message on the souls of men. The gospel was the motivation for the Christians in the first century AD to live, teach, worship, and hope. In the early church the gospel was that me...

• Word Count: 5937
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• Grade Level: High School

... all justly deserve is eternal damnation for cosmic rebellion against the Almighty and Sovereign Creator of the Universe. The verses cited in this paper indicate that just the opposite is true: that the ultimate decision for salvation rests with God and not with man. The Bible teaches that from all eternity God has chosen to intervene in the lives of some people and bring them to saving faith ... have with regard to spiritual issues might be alleviated if the Christian client understands the extent of God's love and the sufficiency of Christ's atonement. Nowhere is this more evident than...

• Word Count: 5514
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... in verity." (White). Nevertheless, one must note that this most precious message has been built upon a foundation. "This message was to bring more prominently before the world the uplifted Saviour, the sacrifice for the sins of the whole world." (White, emphasis added). In other words, justification by faith, or soteriology, rests upon an understanding of what constitutes sin. Richard Taylor grasped this ... mercy seat, of our sins. Furthermore, any evangelical would point to the fact that the mercy seat contained the moral law of God. "And he wrote on the tables, according to the first...

• Word Count: 3531
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... of this new nation, Abraham epitomizes faith in his unquestionable trust and obedience. The Abrahamic Covenant narrowed God's focus on earth and established the Jewish race as His chosen people with the promise of a new nation, which would occupy its own land and the establishment of a theocracy. The covenant included God's blessings on Abraham's descendants, as well as a curse on their enemies. Symbolized and ... customized by the ritual of circumcision, His covenant was to set apart His people to ... sins because of His duality, mere man and almighty God. Whereas, the ritual of circ...

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... God made a covenant with Abraham; he said that the descendants of Abraham shall inherit a promised land (foundation for the belief that they are the "chosen" people) because of his faith in and fear of God. God promised Abraham that the Jews (his descendants) would inherit the land of Canaan. The teachings of Judaism are based upon the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament), which consists of three sections ... : Torah, Prophets and Writings. The collection as a whole is referred to as the Tanak. The Torah consists of the first five books of the ... their promise is not valid anymore and they...

• Word Count: 2649
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• Grade Level: High School

... for and loves his creatures? Second, why must God not only allow the suffering of his chosen, or the suffering servant, or the prophet - suffer such grievous fates? Most particularly, for the Christian, why must God's plan include the passion, suffering, and death of the individual designated to be the only begotten Son of God, Jesus the Christ?" Christ's death is seen as an appeasing sacrifice that compensates sin ... God allows suffering. However, it is important to see that we can't have happiness without sorrow; one is meaningless without the other. Happiness is not a reward, and so...

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... are several other passages stating we cannot lose our salvation, then we must not take these verses to mean we can. If this were the case, the Bible would be contradicting itself. Second, just because passages warn believers not to fall away, it does not imply that they can. It ... of an Arminian. The Need to Persist in Faith (The Conditional Security View) This view holds the opposition to the eternal security view. They state that in order to have a loving relationship with Christ, it is essential that this relationship is by free choice and must be freely chosen to sustain. If we .....

• Word Count: 2774
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... solutions ( such as "Father, Son, Spirit-) must be questioned and replaced or augmented by better alternatives. Is Jesus Christ mainly to be remembered as the one who commanded his disciples to call God "Father-? One author after another, in more or less sophisticated ways, advances that because Jesus called God ... - specific in any sense. In calling God "Father-, however, Israeli was deliberately refusing to call God "Mother-, Israeli was deliberately repudiating everything that the fertility cults around it associated with female deities. Yes Israeli did occasionally use female imager...

• Word Count: 3877
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... : 8 impious assertion; while they evade all those which declare his divinity, and the glory he possesses with the Father,"" (Wilson, 1984, p168-9). Arius claimed that all men were the sons of God and that they were born in the image of the Son and the Son was no different than themselves and the Son was chosen not by superiority of nature but by virtue of his self-effort ... . The epistle of John states, "Beloved, now are we the sons of God...." (1 John 3: 2). The Church labeled Arius's assertions as an unforgivable ... sin. Arius's beliefs did not prevail in the Christian Church because...

• Word Count: 2796
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... acts as a catalyst in Cesira's awakening and self-realization that capitalism, a social structure that is the fruit of her sin, is not the root of life. In his role as a catalyst, Michele, like Rosetta, is linked to Jesus Christ, who was sent to earth to redeem the sins of God's chosen people. Like Christ, Michele is first persecuted then sacrificed for his beliefs. At ... the beginning of both the novel and the film, it is evident that Rosetta personifies purity and goodness (Ross 140). Through both mediums, she is presented as wholesome ... , innocent and devout. In fact, Moravia reca...

• Word Count: 2867
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour' (1 Pet.5:8). But because Satan and his demonic followers have been legally ousted from their usurpation of rule over the earth by the victory of the Lord Jesus Christ on the cross, the old serpent's days are numbered (Jn.12:31). However, because his powers are now limited (Rev.20:1-3; Col.2:15; Eph.4:8), his anger knows no bounds ... come to Him in repentance and faith. Even in the Old Testament prophecies of the outpouring of the Spirit on the Church, this Baptism with the Holy Spirit is shown to be for all those who come to Christ. As t...

• Word Count: 10720
• Approx Pages: 43
• Grade Level: High School