"# 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. ... The idea here, from the context of this passage, is that to the first century Jews the "good news" was preached similarly compared to the "good news" for Israel, as they came out of Egypt, to a land flowing with milk and honey. ... Often, this visual context and representation provides added meaning, understanding, and even emotional impor...

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Born and raised as a Roman Catholic, my parents tried their best to mold me not just into a kind and obedient kid but to be a girl with a strong faith in God. I remember that our apartment didn't have just one but a couple of altars. At a very young age, I was taught how to make the sign of the cros...

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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...

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