REFLECTION PAPER JESUS" ENCOUNTERS WITH WOMEN Look closely at two gospel stories that feature Jesus" encounters with women. What do these stories tell you about Jesus? ... Stinson says " if we are aware of the status of women at the time of Christ, we can see how revolutionary was His way of relating to them." ... The crucial message here is that Jesus clearly respects women and values their role in society. ... I have found affirmation and encouragement realising that Jesus obviously valued and supported women. ...

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There are many different opinions about Jesus Christ. ... According to the Gospel of Saint Matthew, Simon Peter confessed that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God. ... Jesus Christ mission to the world is to reconcile lost man back to God. In the second book of Corinthians it states that all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ. ... Jesus Christ is the savior of all mankind. ...

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The description of Jesus as Messiah in this book displays Jesus as one who is the fulfiller of the Old Testament Prophets and Laws, even when revealing Christ as described as the new Moses. ... Mark starts his Gospel verifying that Christ is the Messiah and the distress servant. ... Mark also represents that Christ is authoritative as well. ... Christ is understood as authoritative over everything in chapters 4 and 5. ... Mark reveals Christ's power over everything in the world. ...

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The Case For Christ: A Journalist's Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus. ... His case study was not altered in any way with a faith in Christ. ... It was faith affirming also hearing that such educated people such as those interviewed in this book and Strobel himself have faith in Jesus Christ. So often I get discouraged thinking that only the needy, lonely, simple people come to have faith in Christ, resulting in a weakened argument that Jesus is real. Strobel and those interviewed in his book stand to strengthen the testament of Jesus Christ. ...

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This experience strengthened my testimony of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ. ... I have been blessed and will "prosper" because of my faith in my Heavenly Father, and I pray everyday that my old friends will in someway experience the joy that the restored gospel brings to a worthy member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. ...

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This Gospel places it's attention on what Jesus did. ... Mark's account of Jesus is full of action and an excellent introduction for the unbeliever to the life of Christ. ... Mark starts from the public ministry of Jesus, when he (Jesus) was about thirty years. ... The Gospel of Mark shows the humanity of Jesus. ... The central themes of Mark are: The Kingdom of God; Jesus as the Son of Man, Messiah and the Son of God; redemption through the Cross; and the future coming of Christ and the turmoil that proceeds it. ...

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He then offers his solution which is based on the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. He states that "those who believe in Jesus Christ receive forgiveness for sin and gain new life in the Holy Spirit." ... At the end of Romans 3, Paul explains how Jesus Christ took our punishment. ... He then tells of how "we are made right in God's sight when we trust in Jesus Christ to take away our sins For God sent Jesus to take away the punishment for our sins and to satisfy God's anger against us." ... I am challenged to never question the fact that Jesus Christ was sent by God to take away the hum...

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Paul said that circumcision was not necessary to be a follower of Jesus, because it is more important for a person to accept Jesus Christ into his or her heart. This is proved in Galatians 2:16 where Paul said, "Yet we know that people don't receive God's approval because of their own efforts to live according to a set of standards, but only by believing in Jesus Christ." Paul also mentioned that Christ's death would have been pointless if we could receive salvation by only obeying rules. ... Salvation, which is a relationship with God through the risen Christ, was what Paul ...

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There are five major theological themes in I Corinthians: 1) Christ ology, from beginning to end, Paul discusses every issue in the light of the testimony of Christ. Paul's gospel is fundamentally the story of Jesus crucified and rose from the dead and insist that the community must be developed on this story. Christ defined the way people live. ... This holds the community together and helps them understand their corporate relations with God and Jesus. ... Paul realizes that God sent Jesus to make it possible for people to reconcile their relationship with God. ...

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Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior. ... This right away establishes Jesus as both the King of the Jews and the Messiah. ... It incorporates Old Testament teachings in with one of Jesus's parables. ... Jesus in return asked them why they disobey God. ... There was mutual hostility between the Pharisee's and Jesus. ...

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King who is a very religious man often mentions passages from the bible, for instance he says " he is in Birmingham because injustice is here" and then compares it to when the Apostle Paul left his hometown to go to other parts of the world to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ. ...

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Paul preached complete Biblical sermon from Noah to Jesus to Antioch (Acts 13:16-380 B. ... Paul commands Spirit to leave her in the name of Jesus Christ 3. ... Preached to Jews in Synagogue about Jesus B. ... Paul goes to Corinth preaching the Gospel of Jesus for 1.5 years. ... Paul states he is ready to die for Jesus. ...

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Mt 22:1-14 utilizes this tradition and expresses wedding celebrations in order to exemplify the significance of Jesus's goal to bring salvation to those on Earth. ... (Brown 664) Matthew paints the scene of Jesus using a parable to describe the fact, "The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a wedding banquet for his son " (Mt 22:2). ... Theologically, the kingdom of heaven was represented by the wedding banquet, for those who were invited to the wedding banquet were extended an invitation to the kingdom of God, while the King was an image of God, The Father and the king...

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