Jesus: Teacher and Healer “While claiming full unity and equality with God‚ Jesus was very active as a teacher and healer. Through his parables‚ direct teaching on important topics‚ and miracles‚ Jesus used commonplace human situations to tell us about God’s interest in each of us‚ the way to make good choices in our life‚ and about the Kingdom” (Adult Learner’s Guide). Parables What is a parable? A parable is a short story or a brief tale that is told to illustrate a religious‚ moral‚ or
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heaven‚ if there is a heaven‚ a cabinet so sublime‚ so extravagantly constructed as to hold the two classics: Star Wars and The Matrix. Star Wars was the original space-western journey of the seventies – The Matrix is the Star Wars of the noughties. Luke Skywalker was the well-built‚ blonde haired‚ blue eyed stereotypical American farmer of the time of Star Wars’ production. Today‚ western civilisation considers Neo an idol for modern boys. Neo is the rebellious tech-whiz‚ a computer junkie. In the
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the gospels Short Writing Assignment #2 Each of the four gospels contained in the New Testament portrays a different and unique portrait of Jesus. Mark ’s gospel represents Jesus as the suffering servant‚ while Matthew shows Jesus as the new Moses. Luke stresses Jesus ’ inclusion of the outcasts and then John ’s non-synoptic gospel shows Jesus as God ’s presence and as an otherworldly figure. Mark portrays Jesus as a powerful yet unrecognized and suffering Messiah. Stories throughout the gospel show
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element of departure through Luke Skywalker‚ the hero. When Luke’s aunt and uncle were killed by Imperial Army…this is when he is called to help the rebellion fight back. This is Luke’s “Call to Adventure”‚ which begins his departure as the hero on his journey.
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substance with riotous living” (Luke 15:13). Once his money was all gone‚ a famine came upon the land. He had to resort to getting a job as a swine feeder. When he realized what he had done‚ he wanted to return home and ask his father for a job there. He was prepared to admit that the choices he had made were not of good report and only expected his father to give him a bed in the stable. But much to his surprise‚ his father welcomed him with open
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with casting a demon out of a human. In Matthew 15‚ a Canaanite woman cried out to Jesus about her demon-possessed daughter that was suffering. She proved that she had great faith and Jesus healed her daughter in front of the woman’s eyes. In Mark 5‚ Luke 8‚ and Matthew 8‚ Jesus restores a demon-possessed man. The demon stated his name was Legion‚ and knew exactly who Jesus was. Legion had taken over the man and begged Jesus not to torture him. Jesus sent the demon into the herd of pigs and commanded
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his way. This is foolish of him because he expects his journey to be successful but everything turns on him. At the end Odysseus looks differently at himself when he learns that without gods he is nothing‚ the same thing happens in Star Wars. When Luke is with Obi-Wan‚ at first he questions him and does not believe in him and in his advice. At the end he learns that without Obi-Wan and his teachings of the force‚ in this case an example of the gods in the Odyssey‚ he would be nothing. Star
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After so long the reputation still lingers. Not only has Mary been marked as a prostitute‚ she allegedly had the devil come out at her 7 times. “Could anything else in Mary’s life have made her an outcast? The Gospel of Luke tells us that Jesus cast seven demons out of Mary.” (Luke 8:2) At that time‚ people believed that the demons possessed people who had done something wrong‚ and
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contrasted with the Gospel of Mark. Since Mark was written to the people in Rome and Matthew was written for the Jewish people. The same also goes for Luke and John since they were also both wrote for different groups of people. While Matthew may be the first book in the New Testament‚ it is still considered to be a synoptic gospel that ties along with Mark‚ Luke‚ and John. Since they all four basically tell the same stories just in different points of view. Most scholars in the world believe to be that
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