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...

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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. ...

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So, by not reimbursing the parochial school children's parents, no rights are violated because by not giving them money neither establishes religion nor does not allow people to practice their religion. ... He states that "all school children are left to ride as ordinary paying passengers on the regular busses operated by the public transportation system" (Jackson) and that the reason that taxpayers complain about this is because it is stated that "intervals to reimburse parents for the fares paid, provided the children attend either public schools or Catholic Church school...

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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. ...

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"# 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 ...

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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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