In Matthew 20, Jesus tells the parable of the workers in the vineyard. ... For just as we have many members in one body and all the members do not have the same function, so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another. ...
The Ten Commandments and the World in 2002 Here we are 2000 years since the time of Christ and it is evident why Jesus warned us not to be like the world. ... I asked him if he had ever been told about Jesus Christ. ... Sometimes I think that non-believers say the Lord's name more that those who are in Christ. I was in a gas station the other day when a woman stepped up to pay and said the name, "Jesus Christ" in vain. ... In this we serve as a reminder of Christ's relationship with His church. ...
No parable of Jesus has been used or quoted more than that of "The Prodigal Son-. ... Compton says, "the greatest of all His [Jesus'] parables."" ... A better understanding of this passage will allow us to see how Jesus taught his disciples and the Pharisees about the love and grace of God. ... More than anything I hope to catch a glimpse of the love of Christ. ... "Then Jesus said, "There was a man who had two sons."" ...
He exemplifies that as one person can have right over different substances, similarly Jesus Christ has the right over both humanity and divinity, and both exist in equality (Roberts). ... The three persons are The God, The Spirit of God and Jesus Christ, who is the Son of God. ... Marcoin's argument was based on the exoteric view that there cannot be one same God for both Jesus Christ and the rest of the world as if this was the case, then Christ would have all the attributes of God. ... Since both these attributes cannot be associated with Christ, they tend to deny the concept of sole po...
(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...
AN EXEGESIS OF 2 CORINTHIANS 12:7 There are perhaps few passages within the Pauline Corpus1 that have so much ambiguity involved as that of 2 Cor 12:7. Questions arise from Paul's metaphorical use of "skovkoloy th/: sarkiv." There are questions about the dative use of th/: sarkiv. Theories abound as to what the thorn is2. These vary from eyesight3 to malaria, from sexual temptation4 to human enemies5 or even a satanic enemy6. ...
