People in those days weren't perfect, some did robberies just like today, but the disciple's jobs were to show the right path. ... I disagree and think it is possible to be disciple in the modern. There are some distractions in the modern world but they can be avoided. ... There is a lot of materialism in the modern world. ...
A council of the church was held from 8th October till 1st November 141 AD at the Asian Minor city of Chalcedon in modern Istanbul. ... The Chalcedonian Definition confirmed that Jesus Christ is "the same perfect in Godhead and also perfect in manhood; truly God and truly man". ...
Jesus also puts forth a call to holiness, commanding that people be as perfect as God. ... Yancey quotes several modern authors on Jesus' entry into Jerusalem, the Last Supper and first communion with his disciples, and Judas's betrayal of Jesus; Jesus' personal struggle in the garden of Gethsemane and the disciples' failure to support him; his questioning before Herod and Pontius Pilate; his crucifixion at Calvary; and finally his resurrection from the dead. ... The modern church sometimes fails to follow through on Jesus' ministries to the outcast and oppressed and ...
Ellen Weis, San Francisco's Museum of Modern Mythology Consumerism fuels the capitalist fire. ... For women, the smoker typically has long blonde hair, a beautiful smile, and perfect, white teeth. ... While they themselves seem less than perfect, they can always look to this image of kindness and project onto it their fears of their race being a total abomination of God and be reassured by it. ... The perfect marriage between consumerism and religion can be found in the myth of Santa Claus. ...
Ellen Weis, San Francisco's Museum of Modern Mythology Consumerism fuels the capitalist fire. ... For women, the smoker typically has long blonde hair, a beautiful smile, and perfect, white teeth. ... While they themselves seem less than perfect, they can always look to this image of kindness and project onto it their fears of their race being a total abomination of God and be reassured by it. ... The perfect marriage between consumerism and religion can be found in the myth of Santa Claus. ...
"Beloved, I beg you as sojourners and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul, having your conduct honorable among the Gentiles, that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may, by your good works which they observe, glorify God in the day of visitation." 1 Peter 2...
First, Jesus at age 12 was able to amaze all the teachers of scripture who's biblical knowledge was perfect and all of those who heard him speak. ... Without writing a single line, he has set more pens in motion and furnished more themes for more sermons, orations, discussions, works of art, learned volumes, and sweet songs of praise than the whole army of great men of ancient and modern times. ...
That said, modern readers of Milton's Paradise Lost may be inclined to observe Satan's government in Hell as ideal - everyone has an opportunity to speak his piece, and votes are taken when decisions are called for. ... This contrast places the vile pettiness and evil of Hell against the perfect holiness of Heaven. ...
This runs counter to our modern concept that the longer one works, the more he or she is entitled to receive. ... And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect. ...
One traditional Christian view of survival of death runs, in outline form, something like this: On some future day all the dead will be bodily raised, both the righteous and the unrighteous alike, to be judged by God ; and the guarantee and model of the general resurrection (i.e., the raising of the dead in the last days) is the already accomplished resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.My aim in this paper is to explain and defend this basic view of resurrection. There are many ways it might be understood, of course, and perhaps more than one is coherent and even from a Christian point o...
