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Alternate meaning: See Apostle (Mormonism) The Christian Apostles were Jewish men chosen from among the disciples, who were sent forth (as indicated by the Greek word απόστολος apostolos= messenger), by Jesus to preach the Gospel to both Jews and Gentiles, across the world. ...
In Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy, an ecumenical council is a meeting of the bishops of the whole church convened to discuss and settle matters of Church doctrine and practice. ...
The East-West Schism, known also as the Great Schism (though this latter term sometimes refers to the later Western Schism), was the event that divided Chalcedonian Christianity into Western Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy. ...
The Protestant Reformation was a movement which began in the 16th century as a series of attempts to reform the Roman Catholic Church, but ended in division and the establishment of new institutions, most importantly Lutheranism, Reformed churches, and Anabaptists. ...
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The Ten Commandments on a monument in the grounds of the Texas State Capitol This 1768 parchment (612x502 mm) by Jekuthiel Sofer emulated 1675 decalogue at the Esnoga synagogue of Amsterdam The Ten Commandments, or Decalogue, is a list of religious and moral imperatives which, according to the Bible, was...
The Sermon on the Mount was, according to the Gospel of Matthew, a particular sermon given by Jesus of Nazareth around 30 CE on a mountainside to his disciples and a large crowd (Matt. ...
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Christian ecumenism is the promotion of unity or cooperation between distinct religious groups or denominations of the Christian religion, more or less broadly defined. ...
| The Sermon on the Plain, said to be by Jesus according to Gospel of Luke 6:17-49, may be compared to the longer Sermon on the Mount. Some commentators believe they may be the same sermon, others that Jesus frequently preached similar themes in different places, still others that neither sermons really took place but were conflations of Jesus's primary teachings as put together by Matthew and Luke. // Jesus, or Jesus of Nazareth, also known as Jesus Christ or Christ Jesus, is Christianitys central figure, both as Messiah and, for most Christians, as God incarnate. ...
The Gospel of Luke is the third of the four canonical Gospels of the New Testament, which tell the story of Jesus life, death, and resurrection. ...
The Sermon on the Mount was, according to the Gospel of Matthew, a particular sermon given by Jesus of Nazareth around 30 CE on a mountainside to his disciples and a large crowd (Matt. ...
Luke 6:12-20a sets the stage for the sermon, Jesus spent the night on the mountain praying to God, the next day he gathered his disciples and selected 12 of them whom he named Apostles, on the way down he stopped at a level place where there were a lot of people and he cured those who were sick and then looking at his disciples he began what is called the Sermon on the Plain: A Disciple (from the Latin discipulus, a pupil) is one who receives instruction from another; a scholar; a learner; especially, a follower who has learned to believe in the truth of the doctrine of his teacher; an adherent in doctrine. ...
Alternate meaning: See Apostle (Mormonism) The Christian Apostles were Jewish men chosen from among the disciples, who were sent forth (as indicated by the Greek word απόστολος apostolos= messenger), by Jesus to preach the Gospel to both Jews and Gentiles, across the world. ...
- Beatitudes (6:20-26)
- Love your enemies and turn the other cheek (6:27-36)
- Treat others the way you want to be treated (6:31)
- Don't judge and you won't be judged, don't condemn and you won't be condemned, forgive and you will be forgiven, give and you will receive (6:37-38)
- Can the blind lead the blind? Disciples are not above their teacher (6:39-40a)
- Take the log from your own eye before attending to the sliver in your friend's (40b-42)
- A good tree does not produce bad fruit and a bad tree cannot produce good fruit, each tree is known by its fruit (43-45)
- Why do you call me Lord, Lord yet not do what I command? (46)
- Whoever follows my instruction builds on rock and will survive, whoever does not builds on sand and will be destroyed (47-49)
According to 7:1, after Jesus had said everything he had to say to the crowd, he went to Capernaum. The Beatitudes (from Latin, beatitudo, happiness) is the name given to a well-known, and to some, such as Henri Nouwen, definitive and central, portion of the Sermon on the Mount, recorded in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke. ...
Turn the other cheek is a famous phrase taken from the Christian New Testament, Matthew 5:39-40, when Jesus says: But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. ...
The Golden Rule or ethic of reciprocity is: Do unto others as you would have others do unto you This phrase can be found in Matthew 7:12 but the principle is as old as Mankind. ...
Capernaum (Kfar Nahum) was a settlement on the shore of the Sea of Galilee. ...
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