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    Birth Of Jesus

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    Different Narratives Surrounding the Birth of Jesus The story of Jesus is popular and well-known in the United States. However‚ when people attentively read the four gospels in the New Testament‚ it can be seen that difference in the narratives of Jesus’ birth. For example‚ the birth of Jesus is not mentioned in Mark Gospel. By contrast‚ John Gospel talks about the theological truth about Jesus before the beginning of the world‚ which means it is not about the human and natural birth. Matthew Gospel

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    The Roman empire was a period of various political and historical victories. One of those victories is the capturing of Jerusalem. Titus Vespasianus Augustus‚ born in Dec. 30‚ 39 ce—died Sept. 13‚ 81 ce‚ eldest son of once Roman emperor Vespasian‚ succeeded in conquering the city of Jerusalem in seventy CE (Titus‚ 2016). To commemorate this significant victory‚ his brother‚ Domitian‚ orchestrated the construction of the arch as a tribute. This arch is still standing today and is called the Arch of

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    contains messages of divine judgment against Judah and Jerusalem‚ as well as against other nations. It addresses a rare concentration of references to central issues in the history of ancient Israel. Idolatry‚ violence‚ and deception abound in Judah when Zephaniah began prophesying. Zephaniah ’s prophesying made it clear that Yahweh would execute vengeance upon unrepentant wrongdoers. His adverse judgments would be visited not only upon Judah and Jerusalem‚ but also upon other peoples: the Philistines‚ Ammonites

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    Theme of Missions in the NT God has always been a God concerned with missions. In the Old Testament His desire was for Israel to share Him with the entire world. Israel was not interested in this mission. They grew to hate the pagan world. God himself came to earth in the form of man to be a mission-model for us. Jesus came to “seek and to save the lost” (Luke 19:10). He then required all who followed him as a disciple to do the same. Jesus told his disciples in Matthew 4:19 to “come‚ follow

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    from Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos‚ who requested that western volunteers come to his aid and help to repel the invading Seljuq Turks from Anatolia. An additional goal soon became the principal objective—the Christian reconquest of the sacred city of Jerusalem and the Holy Land and the freeing of the Eastern Christians from Islamic

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    Riley-Smith sets out five main arguments to show how these ideas of crusading evolved. Firstly‚ he argues that Pope Urban ’s original message was conventional‚ secondly that a more positive reaction was drawn from the laity (due to the ideas surrounding Jerusalem)‚ thirdly‚ that the original message of crusading had changed because of the horrible experiences of the first crusaders‚ fourth‚ that due to these experiences the crusaders developed their own concept of what a crusade was‚ and lastly‚ that these

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    Catholic Church in the west and the Eastern Orthodox Church to churches to split apart? 4. How are the religions of Islam‚ Judaism‚ and Christianity different? How are they similar? 5. What were the Crusades? Who were the Crusaders? Why was Jerusalem so important to Christianity‚ Judaism‚ and Islam? What happened

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    of the Pope who desired power over Jerusalem. Long before the Crusades started‚ the Christian Empire was split into two groups-- The Byzantine Empire and the Roman Catholic Empire‚ this was called “The Great

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    It has formed the core part of the wider Arab-Israeli conflict. It has been referred to as the world’s “most stubborn conflict”. The issues of conflicts are: mutual appreciation‚ borders‚ security‚ water rights‚ control of Jerusalem‚ Israeli settlements‚ Palestinian freedom of movement‚ and Palestinian right of return. The region is prosperous in respect of historic‚ cultural and religious interest worldwide‚ because of brutal conflict has become the subject matter of different

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    Turks stormed into Baghdad taking Jerusalem with them. They ravaged the towns and conquered all of Asian Minor from the Byzantine Greeks. Christian lands were burned and pillaged by an accursed race. The Byzantine emperor was in a state of emergency and requested help to fight against these people. The pope responded with a new kind of fighters to defend the lands. He called on the knights of Christendom to form a crusade. Their mission was to rescue Jerusalem and the Holy Land from the Muslim Turks

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