1. Who is Jesus
The use of ordinary people without fancy costume and backed by a demanding orchestra display recreated that famous day. ... God loved his people and he heard there cries saying, " Comfort ye, comfort ye, my people...." A soothing alto reveals the plans that god has in store for his people. ... The people realize that a debt has been paid and they rejoice. ... Often people are so impressed with this flattery that they miss the whole meaning of the play. ...
The Old Testament, written by many people over a period of 1,500 years, contains more than 300 prophecies describing His appearance. ... He grew up in a very ordinary town, named Nazareth, located in Galilee, which was in the north of Palestine. ... Although He probably had no more religious education than the average Jewish man, people wanted to hear Him. ... Hope that one day if people live a morally good life that they will be rewarded with a paradise called heaven. ...
With the Resurrection of Christ, his disciples took heart and went about preaching the Kingdom of God to all the people of the world. ... The Church was founded, not as an institution of Authority to force the name and teaching of Christ upon the world, but only as a witness-bearing institution to Christ, to hold Him before the people. ... On the day of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit came upon these disciples (they were about a hundred and twenty people - Acts 1:15) and they started speaking in other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance (Acts 2:4). ... On the very same day about 3,000 (t...
Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood. People everywhere brag and whimper about the woes of their early years, but nothing can compare with the Irish version: the poverty; the shiftless loquacious alcoholic father; the pious defeated mother moaning by the fire; pompous priests; bullying schoolmasters; the English and the terrible things they did to us for eight hundred long years. ...
The Jews were strong people. ... Though the land often lacked water and no one knew if enough rain would fall from one year to the next or if locusts or field mice would spoil their crops, facing adversity only made the people of Galilee stronger and more supportive of each other. ... The people of Nazareth had a strong Jewish faith. As God's chosen people, descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the Jews believed this land was theirs, given to their ancestors whom Moses led out of Egypt. ... Mary as a believer is a model for every ordinary Christian. ...
"He spoke in ordinary language and conveyed the sense of Gods presence and caring by his own human presence and caring for others and by his own human way of living his life, establishing values and priorities, praying and relating to others." ... Once again, Jesus" life being exemplary for people and in the same instance the duty of his divine message. ... Jesus tells the people to love God "with all of your heart mind, soul, and with your entire being." ... "In him in what he was, in the way he lived and in what he said and did for them, people tended to find new life, hope, challenge, ...
" To ordinary human beings, finally- the vast majority who exist for service and the general advantage, and who may exist only for that - religion gives an inestimable contentment with their situation and type." ... "God is dead: but as the human race is constituted, there will perhaps be caves for millenniums yet, in which people will show his shadow" (Kaufman 108). ...
The foundation of Rome was its people, and its people were reliant on the gods they worshipped. Any disturbance to their stable social structure was unacceptable to the Roman people. The business of the state was also a major concern of the Roman people. ... This, though minute on detail, shows us of a glimpse of how important politics and the government were to an ordinary Roman citizen. For the state and people are one, as is immortalized by the Roman emblem "SPQR", meaning Senatus Populusque Romanus or the Senate and the People of Rome. ...
During these times, monks were among the only people to be educated. ... "5 The reference to King Solomon may signify that Sir Gawain holds great wisdom because, as legend has it, King Solomon was known for his ability to rule wisely and lead his people to abundant success. ...
"# Our word "gospel" has a definite religious connotation whereas in the ordinary conversation of the first century it did not.# However, Wuest describes that: It was taken over into the Cult of Caesar where it acquired a religious significance. ... Even though it is not believed that the New Testament message has been derived from this Roman cult, we see that people would have already associated a religious content with euangelion.# This insight helps in understanding passages such as Hebrews 4:2: "For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not ...
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...
