Essays Tagged: "Beatitudes"
Analyzation of the gospel passage, The Sermon on the Mount. (5 pages)
nt discusses various ways in which people can follow Jesus to get to heaven. In the first part, The Beatitudes are discussed. In society today, these teachings mean almost nothing. Nevertheless, they ... that is that for every good deed, one is rewarded or what goes around comes around. For most of the Beatitudes, one can go by those adages. As for the rest of the teachings such as "Blessed are they t ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity
Matthew 5-7
aiming the character of the Kingdom, which is traditionally known as the Sermon on the Mount or the Beatitudes (5:1-12). In these opening statements Jesus outlines the primary attributes of people who ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity
Anaylsis of the Beatitudes,the ten commandments the Gita and Sun tzu's Art of war throughtout history
le of their time and reflected a part of their culture. Works that fall under this category are the Beatitudes, the Ten Commandments; Sun Tzu's the Art of War and Bhagavad-Gita Gita. All of these text ... l growth. During these times the Ten Commandments formed the basis of all Israelite legislation.The Beatitudes are eight blessings uttered by Jesus at the opening of the Sermon on the Mount. These tea ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History
The Beatitudes and their explanation.
The beatitudes are eight statements taught by Jesus. They are concerned with virtue and how a believer i ... sus. They are concerned with virtue and how a believer in Jesus Christ can achieve that virtue. The Beatitudes are a map of life, a series of directives helping us on our journey to be with God. They ... se he was saying God's words, but did that stop Jesus from telling people about who the Lord is.The beatitudes are simply stated, but are profound in meaning. They guide. They point. They teach. They ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity
How do Christianity's core ethical teachings impact on Christian life?
l teachings which I will focus on are. The 10 commandments the New Testament ethics, that is: - the beatitudes - Jesus’ commandment of love. The 10 commandments are a part of the whole body of la ... e ethical teachings as they believed that if they followed them, no wrong would be done to them.The Beatitudes are guidelines which Jesus gave to his disciples of how to live the law of love. As I pre ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity
The 10 Commandments, Beatitudes, and Works of Mercy
m I, and probably many other people, did without knowing that they were called works of mercy. The Beatitudes are also rules of a sort, even though their not saying right out that you have to do them ... see God. Thats really the point of all of these, the commandments, the works of mercy, and the Beatitudes. God is telling us how to be clean at heart. He wants us to know and follow, so we ca ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity
Christian Ethics
uite simply, the Ten Commandments (Ex 20:2-17). In addition to this text, it also comprises of "The Beatitudes" which is restated in two sections of the Bible, written in a different context by both M ... e away from sin, evil, the "wrong" and pushes the adherent toward the "right", love, peace, God.The BeatitudesThe Beatitudes (Latin 'blessed') so called because each of the nine sayings begin with "Bl ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity
Nietzche Vs. Matthew
book, but are clearly stated in Matthew's gospel. These morals were written in a series called the Beatitudes. Through morals, laws are created and society is given guidelines, most people see this i ... of society, and the privileged are now seen as evil. This reversal of good and bad are seen in the Beatitudes. It is not the rich and powerful who are favored by God but the weak and poor.In Nietzsch ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy
G.W. Hegal
s. I have always thought that the moral values taught in Christianity (the Ten Commandments and the Beatitudes) were valid however the rest of the teaching I have always doubted. When I would explain ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith