Moses was one of the first Jewish prophets and possibly the most famous. ... The Old Testament was first told in oral tradition and was later collected and written down over centuries primarily in Hebrew. ... The Bible, first written down in Greek, was later translated into Latin and Syrian in the second century A.D. ... All of the revelations of Mohammad were collected by the caliph Abu Bakr and written down in Arabic. ... But he who seeks to go beyond this, these it is that go beyond the limits-- and those who are faithful to their trusts and their covenant, and those who are upright in thei...

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• Grade Level: High School

Jesus sits down and explains that it is not what enters one's mouth that defiles a person, rather it is what comes out of that persons mouth that defiles them. ... This focus on the Pharisees like this goes hand in hand with Matthew's Jewish interpretation of Jesus's life. ... Matthew presents Jesus as the new Moses, taking up the lead where Moses left off. ...

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Matthew's Gospel starts with the ancestry of Jesus all the way down from David and Abraham. ... This is significant because this was a symbol of Moses bringing the Jews out of exile in Egypt. After this Jesus goes on to be baptized by John the Baptist. ... This again is a significant piece that is signifying Moses and the Jews forty year trek through the desert. ... The women go and tell the disciples and they go to Galilee to see the risen Christ. ...

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A father with a need to burn the barns of aristocrats resulting in dragging his family down with him; along with his knowledgeable son. ... When God chose to speak to Moses, "... the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of a bush; he looked, and the bush was blazing, yet it was not consumed" ( Exodus 3:2). 1 Kings 18:24 speaks also of God communicating to people by fire, "'Then you call on the name of your god and I will call on the name of the Lord; the god who answers by fire is indeed God.' ... In Christianity, fire represents the Holy Spirit, which came down u...

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The fulfillment of this prophecy is mentioned in Matthew 26:62-63, which states, "Then the high priest stood up and said to Jesus, 'Are you not going to answer? ... In this passage, Jesus is asked a question in which he asked the Pharisses what Moses commanded them. When they responded, Jesus told them that Moses told them they could get a certificate of divorce because the people's hearts were hard. ... He was constantly on the go in order to reach out to other people. Since Jesus is God, it is admirable that God would come down to human form in order to save people that do not ...

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According to the text (pg 93) it suggested that Matthew is portraying Jesus as the new Moses. ... In Matthew Jesus sees the multitude of people who have followed him, he then goes up the mountain to sit and soon after his disciples come to him. ... To be righteous is to be honorable, moral and good, so when one is all of these things they are going to most likely be ridiculed and harassed or persecuted by the majority of the population. ... I think that the dramatic tension in these verses starts when he begins blessing the poor and climaxes in verse 11 because here he talks about the pain t...

• Word Count: 2010
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• Grade Level: High School

Though the word may be twisted and watered down in the declaration of a "wealth and health" social gospel, the Bible will clearly shows its true nature. Though some may limit its borders to the pages of the first four books of the New Testament, the full meaning of the gospel will tear down these walls with the clear teachings of all Spirit-moved men. ...

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Jesus by no means laid down rules for the worship of himself or God. ... Klassen provides an example of this thirst for vengeance when he quotes Agamemnon stating, "No; we are not going to leave a single one of them alive, down to the babies in their mothers" wombs- not even they must live. ... Klassen also provides a quote from the Odyssey stating, "The disgrace of it will echo down the generations should we fail to punish the murderer of our sons and kindred (Odyssey XXIV. 433-34)." ... This scale of foreseen vengeance is not scaled down until the teachings of Jesus were implemented t...

• Word Count: 3806
• Approx Pages: 15
• Grade Level: High School