This is a marriage such as could never be imagined on this earth, for it is the wedding of the Son of God to the One whom the Father has chosen to be His Bride. ... Ephesians 1:3 says, "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: according as He hath chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love." ...

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Peters character is loving he was the one that was chosen most of the time to do something; he is not shy to say anything. ... They had been chosen by Jesus to do the following, first of all they had to preach the old and New Testament. ...

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He did not like sin in his world, so one day, as it says in chapters six through nine, he sent a flood over the world to rid it of sin but keeping the family he had chosen safe. ... Israel, known as God's chosen people, turned their back on God many times but by his grace he forgave them over and over again and sent them to the God's place known as the land of Canaan. ...

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Each of which seems to have been carefully, perhaps divinely, chosen to serve their literary purpose. In terms of use of hyperbole in the New Testament, there is one central figure who provides us with some of the most eloquent and recollective verses where his use of exaggeration seems so perfectly chosen that once understood, the images are forever with us. ...

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A fetus is a living being from conception, the only difference between a baby that is born, and a fetus is that the fetus's existence is completely dependent on the mother who was chosen by god. In Galatians 1; 15 it says, "Even before I was born, God had chosen me to be His....

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"For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes" (Rev. 7:17). It wasn't until I realized that Jesus' love brilliantly shone from within me that I could recognize that the horr...

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The past experience of the Old Testament gives us a general idea of who God is , the general idea of his presence, and the action He chooses with His chosen people. These chosen people had their experience with God and produce a deep influence in their lives, as well as in our lives; which changes our way of thinking; either positive or negative. ...

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Baptism is a ritual performed by many churches. Each church has a meaning and reason behind the ceremony and beliefs involved but for the Catholic Church it is a means of entering into a community with Christ, with fellow followers, and a gift full of grace and faith. It is the first initiation into...

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I have chosen you.... " (Tenth) Scriptural basis - 1 Peter 1:2 "who have been chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through the sanctifying work of the Spirit, to be obedient to Jesus Christ and sprinkled with his blood: Grace and peace be yours in abundance....

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I previously viewed all Renaissance paintings with an uneducated eye, solely viewing them as religious works, which I had no interest in, based upon my lack of understanding of the narratives involved, the stories of patronage or even the difficulties of the techniques used to paint them. I was that...

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Catholics believe that Jesus goes by many titles, such as the Messiah, the Son of God or the Light of the World, but one of the key titles that Jesus is called by is the fullness of God's Revelation. Through fulfilling salvation History; the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, the world ma...

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"Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny." George Santayana. By age seven I had already been introduced to two of the most known religions in my home ...

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Two famous Vatican II documents are the Gaudium et Spes and the Lumen Gentium. The Gaudium et Spes was written on December 7, 1765 and procalimed by Pope Paul, the sixth. It is the pastoral constitution on the church in the modern world. It is broken down into three sections: the situation of men in...

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The Origin of Christmas is presented beautifully in the well-known Biblical account of Luke: "And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed. (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.) And all went t...

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Faith Faith, according to Hebrews 11:1, is being sure of what we hope for and what we do not see. (New International Version Teen Study Bible) In modern times, faith has been weakened in meaning so that some people use it to mean self-confidence. But in the Bible, true faith is confidence in Go...

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All around the world there are children and families suffering in third world countries. Many of them live day to day not knowing where their next meal is going to come from and live in fear of not being able to survive and to provide for their families. World Vision is a non-profit organization t...

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Chapter 2: 4-10 goes on to inform the readers of how Christians are like the capstone to a builder, rejected by men but chosen by God and he will use that stone in the most important role of the Building. ...

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If an individual was asked if their personal religion was the faith most consistent with the ultimate holy, chances are that answer would be yes. Additionally, the majority of individuals asked would probably be drawing only from their limited knowledge of their one religion. So naturally, their r...

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From the moment one reads the opening lines of John's Gospel they realize that it is much different than the other Synoptics. While the three Synoptics give remarkably similar accounts of their subject's life, John creates a portrait of Jesus that differs in both outline and content from the other ...

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The two themes which I have chosen to talk about in this essay are Faith and Triumph turns to trouble through sin. Although these books are historical, the lesson we learn from them are very much needed today to all Christian believers. FAITH Genesis is also known as the seed plot for the bibl...

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Matthew 5:43-48 states, "Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; that ye may be the children...

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The inception of Christianity and Islam in the Roman and Byzantine empires, the African kingdoms, and the Arabian Peninsula influenced each civilization's daily life, set of beliefs, government, and the Christians and Muslims who practiced. The two religions are similar in many aspects. Both religi...

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Since Jesus" death at the hands of the Roman political powers stood in contradiction to al that the pious Jews believed about the Messiah, God's expected deliverer of the chosen people (Deut. 21:23; cited in Gal. 3:13), a rationale was found in two ways. ...

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Good men must die, but death can not kill their names ---Proverbs How the Term Of Death Has Developed In The Bible Throughout human history, people have refused to accept the finality of death that is bringing about by life. Death, perceptively, brings an unacceptable interruption int...

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In early Hebrew history, the emphasis on details of purity law to keep the chosen people separate reduce women's roles in formal prayer because the law stressed that anyone worshipping Yahweh had to be "clean." ...

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