After some training and some time, Neo is brought to the Oracle. ... Tank, finally, kills Cypher before he kills Neo and gets Trinity and Neo back. ... Trinity and Morpheus get back but before Neo can pick up the phone, an agent arrives. ... John the Baptist made a prophecy about Jesus before he was born. ... This shows that both Neo and Jesus were thought about even before they were born. ...

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John the Baptist was the greatest and most powerful of all the prophets, yet he was not worthy to untie the shoes of the one coming after him: "I am baptizing you in water, but there is one to come that is greater than I. ... For this reason, some of John's followers and Jesus' followers often did not get along after both of them died. ... Luke tells us of the birth of John the Baptist in a town of Judaea, about six months before the birth of the Savior. ... So ultimate was the power emanating from the holy man that after hearing him many believed he was indeed the long-awaited Mes...

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After a while, many of them gather at the temple and go to drag Paul out. ... After he was taken into custody and his flogging was ordered. ... After being brought to Caesarea Paul was presented before King Agrippa in the audience hall in the city of Caesarea. ... After that, the tribune came with many soldiers and the crowd stopped. ... Just before they put him in, Paul begged to talk to the crowd. ...

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In sum, chapters four and five deal with prayer in general, chapters six through eight, discuss appropriate conduct at a meal as well as the blessings recited before and after eating, and chapter nine deals with blessings recited in response to various phenomena. ... Throughout the Barakhot tractate, there are many glimpses into the reverent ways in with the Jewish people regard going before God in prayer. ... For the observant Jew, the Shema is recited in the morning when he rises and in the evening before bed. ... For example, according to Berakhot, the Shema must be recited morning and ev...

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Before they go on these missions they must take endowments. ... The group believes its goals justify methods that members would have considered unethical before joining." 10. ... This is meant to say that the person is destined to achieve the highest degree of heaven after death. ... The Mormons also believe that before you are born, the person will exist in heaven as a spirit. After a period of learning they are given their human body. ...

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After this we will look at the rebellious action of the son, the ruthless anticipation of the Father, and the relentless affection of the Father. ... This verse already begins to state the glorious home with the father, before things began to take a turn for the worst. ... Now the son, after spending all that his father had given him, had finally run out of money and was in a bad way financially, but the country is also in a bad way because it was during a famine. ... "I will get up and go to my father, and I will say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you; I am no longer...

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This book written by John in 95 or 96 AD, is the revelation of Jesus Christ illustrating the events that occur before and during the second coming of Christ. ... Some think that the book was written around 64 AD, after the burning of Rome. ... If this book was not written by John the Apostle, it was written by a John never before heard of or mentioned. ... After this millennial reign Satan will be released once again to deceive the people and attempt to turn them against God in one final battle, the battle of Armageddon. ... The wicked are cast into the lake of fire, the dead stand before God ...

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For example, when lying on my bed after a good night's rest, I feel comfort, security, warmth and satisfaction. ... God could say the very same thing to the man who brought his son before Him in Mark Nine. ... Nephi declared that we must "follow the Son, with full purpose of heart, acting no hypocrisy and no deception before God, but with real intent" (2 Nephi 31:13). ...

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In Blake's epoch, children were considered to be sinful before God for only the ones who accepted Christ were forgiven and were the heirs of eternal life. ... It was the state of man before the fall of Adam and Eve, the state of incessant joy and a mind which knows the virtues of delight. ... Another time, after the resurrection His description goes like: "His appearance was like lightning, and his clothes were white as snow." ... The lamb is then the child of God who is well taken after? ...

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., was converted or attracted to Judaism some years before he was evangelized.... His intent is to show that following Christ does not come without a price and that each person must lay down their own desires to follow after him. ... "It has been repeatedly asserted that Luke and Acts were written at the end of the decade of the sixties, before the end of the trial of Paul. ...

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When Cesira and Rosetta encounter French officers after leaving the church, Cesira screams, "Do you know what they've done . . . in a church, under the eyes of the Madonna . . . they've ruined her for good and all, a daughter who was an angel and now it's worse than if she were dead- (Moravia 284). ... After agreeing to baptize him along with the sinners, John the Baptist looked at Jesus and pointed him out as the "Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world- (Jn 1:29). ...

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Before any side should be taken with confidence, the shared dogmas must be stated to keep a firm foundation. ... This view takes eternal life as something that has already been given, not something that will be attained after death. ... In 2 Peter 2:20 Peter fears for those who have begun once again to sin after getting out of it, for they will be in a worse state then they were prior. ...

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He entered into Christianity before 197 and rendered his services for illustrating and defending the orthodox principles of the Christian faith. ... The Doctrine of the Church The understanding and views of Tertullian about the doctrines of the church changed significantly after he joined the Montanism group. ... However, his after thoughts differ in this respect as he states that the church is the place of spirit, therefore a bishop is no better than a spiritual man, and a person does not need a representative if he or she has the knowledge about the religion. ...

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(Romans 8:28-30, NRSV) "The Lord is not slow about his promise, as some think of slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance." (2 Peter 3:9, ESV) "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, to t...

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This covenant promise of land frames the entirety of the Hebrew Bible as is evidenced by the fact that, after it is first given by God to Abraham, it is notably repeated to each of the successive patriarchs. ... I will establish my covenant between me and you, and your offspring after you'" (Genesis 17:4-7). ... This urgency is so great that after God first tells Abraham that he will have many descendents, Abraham, under Sarah's insistence, turns to Hagar to carry on his family (Genesis 16:1-4). ... Hannah, on the other hand, displays her deep need for a child by praying to God so fe...

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Hospitals and also some laws have been named after this parable. ... After becoming desperate it brought him to repent and decided that he would return home. ... But before he could get home his father was already looking for him, before the son could even speak and tell his father what had happened, his father was welcoming him back into the family and treated him with great honor, the son was happy to be home when he was welcomed back into the family. ...

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Work Theological Reflections Paper "Work for the night is coming, Work thro" the morning hours; Work while the dew is sparkling, Work "mid springing flowers; Work, when the day grows brighter, Work in the glowing sun; Work for the night is coming, When man's work is done." Th...

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"Thou shalt have no other gods before me." ... But the Lord showed me that anything can be a god - anything placed before the true and living God is grievous to our Lord. ... I"m so proud of my dad - my dad, a great engineer, humbles himself day after day as a bagger. ... My parents are not perfect, but I can clearly see how God has set them before me as examples. ...

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The text was written after the Jewish revolt and the destruction of the Jewish temple and of Jerusalem. ... When it ends, the remainder of the Gospel begins as if nothing appeared before it (Brown: Messiah 49). ... For example in Matthew 14:33, after Jesus walks on water, the boat filled with the apostles "worship him, saying , "Truly you are the son of God"". ...

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The Adamic Covenant "For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners" (Romans 5:19), is a profound illustration of how we are counted as sinners, not for what we have personally done, but because of the actions of one single man acting on our part before God. ... After the waters receded, Noah built an altar to offer a sacrifice to God, while He made a covenant with His faithful servant, "Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from childhood.. ... They would go before as an example of the true G...

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After introducing the topic, I will discuss in turn what I take to be the three most important claims made by the ve rsion of the theory I wish to defend. ... And the notion that the body is essentially evil and must be escaped from (an idea often associated with versions of classical dualism) eras condemned by virtually every orthodox Christian thinker who discussed death and res urrection in the first two hundred years after the apostolic age; the Christian idea is rather that the body was created by Sod and is good; the whole person, body and soul alike, is what is to be saved. ... (How on...

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"This message was to bring more prominently before the world the uplifted Saviour, the sacrifice for the sins of the whole world.... He understands that 1 John 3:4 defines sin only to what the Decalogue prescribes sin to be, voluntary actions of disobedience; nevertheless, he holds it to be a "grave error to say that only conscious and deliberate action against God's will constitutes sinwe come into the world deserving God's wrath, long prior to conscious life and before we are capable of moral decisions....

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To start off talking about in my opinion the most important thing in my life, I would like to thanks God for saving my life and changing it, he deserves all the Glory and praise. Leaving this clear I think it is rather clear and evident that I believe in Jesus and God. God is to me so much more real...

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In comparison to the views of Christian nations, The United States for example sent aid to the north Vietnamese after the Vietnam conflict, even though their foreign policies forbid it. ... Aristophanes states, "Tis now the moment when freed of quarrels and fighting, we should rescue sweet Peace and draw her out of this pit, before some other pestle prevents us." ...

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THE BIBLE"S WORD: "GOSPEL" INTRODUCTION There are few words that harness such spiritual magnitude as the word "gospel." In fact, the gospel of Christ "is the power of God unto salvation" (Rom. 1:16).# In essence, it is God's dynamite# which is used to clear away the rubble of sin so that we might "have access by one Spirit unto the Father" (Eph. 2:18). Such an important concept demands careful attention, study, and application. However, the concept of the gospel has been grossly abused and misunderstood throughout the ages. Within this study, the effort is put forth to consider th...

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