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Calvin viewed Scripture as being equivalent to an utterance of God given from heaven: [6] Since no daily responses are given from heaven, and the Scriptures are the only records in which God has been pleased to consign his truth to perpetual remembrance, the full authority which they ought to possess with the faithful is not recognised, unless they are believed to have come from heaven, as ...
Hades, according to various Christian denominations, is "the place or state of departed spirits ", [ 1] borrowing the name of Hades, the name of the underworld in Greek mythology. It is often associated with the Jewish concept of Sheol. In Christian theology, Hades is seen as an intermediate state between Heaven and Hell in which the dead enter ...
Matthew 3:2. Matthew 3:2 is the second verse of the third chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament. John the Baptist has been introduced in the first verse and this verse describes the message that he is preaching. Through John's message, Matthew introduces the "Kingdom of Heaven".
Teachings on White people's skin color. Mormonism's founder Joseph Smith was White. Early church leaders taught the belief that after death and resurrection everyone in the celestial kingdom (the highest tier of heaven) would be "white in eternity." [ 4][ 5] They often equated Whiteness with righteousness, and they also taught the belief that ...
Illustration from Christ's Object Lessons by Ellen Gould Harmon White, c. 1900. The Parable of the Weeds or Tares ( KJV: tares, WNT: darnel, DRB: cockle) is a parable of Jesus which appears in Matthew 13:24–43. The parable relates how servants eager to pull up weeds were warned that in so doing they would root out the wheat as well and were ...
Matthew 7:13. Der breite und der schmale Weg ("the broad and the narrow road"), from 1866. Matthew 7:13 is the thirteenth verse of the seventh chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament and is part of the Sermon on the Mount. Luke 13:24 has similar wording in relation to the narrow door or gate.
Matthew 7:21. "The sermon on the mount" (1873). From The story of the Bible from Genesis to Revelation. Matthew 7:21 is the twenty-first verse of the seventh chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament and is part of the Sermon on the Mount. This verse continues Jesus ' warning against false prophets.
Christianity. "The eye of a needle" is a portion of a quotation attributed to Jesus in the synoptic gospels : "I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God."