When someone hurts your feelings‚ what do you do? Do you let that steal the joy God has given you? Or do you allow your imagination and your feelings run wild? The Gospel of Luke tells us what we should do when people hurt us: “But I tell you who hear me: Love your enemies‚ do good to those who hate you‚ bless those who curse you‚ pray for those who mistreat you.”1 Does God know what he is saying? Is he actually telling us to love the people who hate us and pray from them? God is asking us to pray
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influential part of the New Testament Mark’s Gospel. An analysis of Mark and his community will be discussed as well as interpreting Jesus’ teachings and his significant theme of Discipleship as it was then and in present society. A Gospel in general‚ is a textual document written in narrative form of the good news and teachings proclaimed by Jesus to announce the power of God. Mark’s Gospel is one of four others (Matthew‚ Luke and John)‚ where each Gospel has its differences in structure‚ language
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four Gospels are attributed to different authors‚ with each book being distinct in some form or another. The Gospels of Mathew‚ Mark‚ and Luke are often referred to as the “Synoptic Gospels.” The Gospel of John‚ however‚ has a different take on the events of Christ’s life‚ and he presents them in a poetic form using many symbols. By comparing one of the Synoptic Gospels‚ like Luke‚ with the Gospel of John‚ we can see the similarities and differences throughout their works. Although the Gospels of Luke
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The Gnostic Gospels Synopsis Chapter 1 In this chapter Pagels examines the history of Christ’s resurrection and how the Gnostic and orthodox versions differ. The orthodox Christians adopted the literature view of the resurrection‚ while the Gnostic texts revealed a more symbolic interpretation; say that those who experienced Christ’s resurrection did so as more of a spiritual manner than a physical one. Pagels notes‚ however‚ that the New Testament includes interpretations of the resurrection
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text resonate with signals from below the surface of the text‚ allowing the gospel to say more than it otherwise might seem to be saying. Since the gospel’s humor constitutes a form of commentary that is by saying definition implicit‚ our task is to make some of the humorous explicit‚ and to consider how the humorous elements function and how they relate to the gospel’s message.” It is not very important about John’s gospel date because “one of the points urged by those who favor a late date is the
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THE GOSPEL OF LUKE I. Background Issues Introduction This report will be focused on the Gospel of Luke‚ however Luke authored both the Gospel bearing his name and the Book of Acts‚ which is said to be the sequel to the Gospel. Through his authorship of both books Luke’s contribution to the New Testament equals out to 27 percent of it.1 Both books were written for and sponsored by a man named “Theophilus” (Luke 1:3). Luke‚ a physician and an educated man‚ used his knowledge to write
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Lindisfarne Gospels include the St. Matthew cross-carpet page‚ St. Luke portrait page‚ and the St. Luke incipit page. It was created in early medieval‚ or Hiberno Saxon‚ Europe‚ around 700 C.E. The Lindisfarne Gospels is an illuminated manuscript‚ created using ink‚ pigments‚ and gold on vellum. The work is known for its decorative patterning and its abstracted zoomorphic representations. “Carpet pages” depict decorative panels of abstract and zoomorphic motifs. The Lindisfarne Gospels exemplify traditional
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The Gospel of Matthew was written with the intention of bridging the gap between the prophecies of the Old Testament‚ and their fulfillment by Jesus in the New Testament. In order to make this connection‚ Matthew’s Gospel takes on a specific mode. It is mainly composed of stories that relate to the teaching aspect of Jesus’ life. Matthew uses his role as an instructor to portray Jesus as a “humble and compassionate Messiah.” Matthew’s perspective is also focused; the Romans are seemingly less culpable
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reliability of the four gospels. His main focus in this book was on the “historical dimension” (pg. 13) in discovering if we truly can trust the gospels. Roberts brief overview of many topics on the reliability of the gospels has us‚ the reader asking ourselves dose the gospels hold up to critical scrutiny‚ scrutiny of the authorship of the gospels‚ the trustworthiness of the scholarly methodology‚ and discovering what the original manuscripts say vs. what the (Bible) gospels says today. Roberts makes
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Clarence Jordan created the Cotton Patch version of the Bible. In the following paper we will use research about the Cotton Patch Versions‚ Clarence Jordan‚ the Southern Baptist Church‚ Harry Chaplin’s music‚ and Tom Key to discuss how Jesus is portrayed in The Cotton Patch Gospel. Clarence Jordan wrote his Cotton Patch Versions of the Bible beginning in the early 1960’s until his death in 1969. During this timeframe in Georgia‚ where he was from‚ the Civil Rights movement was picking up speed‚ but only
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