One effect is that scriptural interpretation must be done starting with the teachings and interactions of Jesus in the Gospels,[270]: 78 with the Sermon on the Mount serving as the starting point,[note 130][173] and arguably with the Beatitudes and the Lord's Prayer at the head of...
Reading the Beatitudes (Mt 5: 1–10) through the lenses of introverted intuition and introverted sensing: Perceiving text differently. HTS Teol. Stud./Theol. Stud. 2019, 75, 4. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] Youyou, W.; Stillwell, D.; Schwartz, H.A.; Kosinski, M. Birds of a feather ...
One’s measure of the beatitudes of the afterlife—the extent to which the afterlife is an experience of exaltation, bliss, joyfulness—depends on the measure of one’s virtue: In the future age … this order of things will be abolished. For then one will not receive from another the ...
When He comes, the gentile times will be over — the BLINDNESS will be removed from the Israelites — and their opportunity — their FIRST chance — of salvation will then come to those whom God had blinded! This is at the time when He comes to REIGN on HIS THRONE — the throne of D...
This seems to be a closer link than that of the Beatitudes. However it is important here to look at the entire sonnet, for it is redolent of many Christian themes. So am I as the rich, whose blessed key Can bring him to his sweet up-locked treasure, ...
He stopped reading and explained the meaning of the confusing verse. “But Daddy,” said one of his daughters, “if that’s what it means, why doesn’t it say so”[2]? Why not, indeed, thought Ken. That’s when he decided to rewrite certain Bible stories for his ten children. ...
In the New Testament we find that the very first lessons taught by Jesus (the Beatitudes in Matthew; chapter 5) were lessons which teach us that all we do here in this lifetime, is in preparation for our eternal life after we die. As a Christian believer, the accounting of what heaven...
By Larry Kummer at the Fabius Maximus website, 3 May 2019. Summary: The Extinction Rebellion and the Green New Deal arouse fears of extinction for other species, and humanity. Only the complicit silence of climate scientists makes this possible. Compare
house of assembly, and called to him those who had conceived the joys of heaven and eternal happiness to consist in paradisiacal delights; to whom he said, “Follow me, and I will introduce you into your paradisiacal heaven, that you may enter upon the beatitudes of your eternal happiness...
For an offense done to the family honor, the sons of Jacob exterminated all Shechem once. We left Jacob’s Well and traveled till eight in the evening, but rather slowly, for we had been in the saddle nineteen hours, and the horses were cruelly tired. We got so far ahead of the te...