How the Beatitudes Help Christians' Relationships With Each Other
God gave the Ten Commandments as guidance and direction for living.
Right and wrong are clearly defined and His people could make their
choice and hopefully obey Him. However, there is a second, even more
important reason that God gave the Ten Commandments. God gave His Law
to help people see that they could never live up to God's perfect
standard. Ever since the Fall, men and women had been cursed with what
is often called original sin. This means that no matter how much we
try, we can never reach God's perfect standard. And Jesus reinforced
this on the Sermon on the Mount when He applied the Ten Commandments
to the heart as well. Jesus says that we don't just sin when we
physically commit adultery, but when we lust. We don't just sin when
we murder, but when we are angry. In other words, no one can stand
before God and demand to be accepted. When we honestly put our hands
on our heart and think of ourselves in light of God's perfect
standard, we realise that we fall short. And that's the main reason
God gave the Ten Commandments and Jesus preached the Sermon on the
Mount. The contents of the Sermon on the Mount demands on Jesus'
followers - they are moved-on from complying with an outward set of
universal values to surrendering themselves - body, mind and soul - to
the ways of God. To take on not only the laws of God for humankind,
but his very persona, through Jesus Christ. To view the Sermon on the
Mount is to emphasise our utter helplessness and show, unambiguously,
our total need of new birth in Christ. But Jesus' words, provide
comfort and hope and blessing to those who are willing to walk with
him. The Sermon on the Mount addresses much more than even these
wonderful promises. Jesus deals with Fulfilment; Attitudes and Action;
Freedom; and Right Relationships - often touching raw nerves as he
speaks, gripping the issues which troubled the people then and are
that will allow a person to find order in their truth. Through such truth and
Spirit), the nature of man and the need for salvation, and sin and the means of atonement.
Others have substituted human wisdom for divine, and based on the “Hermeneutical Principal” they claim liberty to do in religion anything not specifically forbidden in the Bible. Those who justify the use of mechanical instruments of music in worship do so upon the basis that it is preferred and that there is no verse that specifically forbids its use.
morals which is receiving enlightenment in first hand. But they had different ways of delivery
The use of the word Love is seen 15 times in Deuteronomy which shows the importance of love towards not only our fellow brothers and sisters in Christ, the love we are to extend to our neighbor, the love we have for the Lord and of course the love the Lord freely gives to us. In the Old Testament the evidence of God’s love is seen repeatedly. In Deuteronomy 6:4-5 the passage is taken from perhaps the most well known Old Testament passage that is later referenced in the New Testament. We are directed to use all of our being to love the Lord. The evidence of God’s love is also revealed in (Deut 7:6-8,Deut 10:15, Deut 14:2) by choosing the Israelites as His chosen people, liberating the Israelites from the bondage of Egypt as well as showing
scripture. They emphasized redemptive piety and individual responsibility to God (Kizer, Kay). Many of these beliefs are still reinforced today in Christian churches in a variety of ways.
doctrine of a calling - Belief that saved individuals have a religious obligation to engage in worldly work.
... the Biblical rule that states, “Do unto others as you would have done unto you.” Instead, we continually show that there should be no tolerance or understanding of any wrongdoing committed against us.
that life is based on the decisions made by a higher power in an overall plan. The power of free
Eastman, Roger. The Ways of Religion: An Introduction to the Major Traditions. Third Edition. Oxford University Press. N.Y. 1999
The Doctrine of Salvation (Soteriology). God provides us with everything we need; we see this in Genesis where he provided Adam with everything he needed. Jesus became a man by reincarnation; a verse to support this is John 1:14 “
way of the one who is called. Not wealth, not even family: it is a
the power of one. I think someone that can reach out to just one person's life
relevant to life, such as do not kill and do not steal. The bible also
simply and trustingly to God as father, without trying to impress God with fancy language. Through Jesus I learned to talk to God like a son does to his father;