Tag: commandment
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What does the commandment refer to?
10 “if you obey the Lord your God and keep his commandments and statutes that are written in this scroll of the law. But you must turn to him with your whole mind and being. 11 “This commandment I am giving you today is not too difficult …
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Could Matthew 28:18-19 be translated in the Koine Greek to be an exhortation and not a commandment as some may think?
“Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,” Could this mean, ”while you are going out and about or while you are on your way do these things”, or ”while y…
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“Be Perfect” (Mt. 5:48) – a stand-alone commandment, a summary of the Sermon on the Mount, or the conclusion of the teaching on loving one’s enemy?
Note: this is not the same question as those which seek the meaning of “Be Perfect” in itself. Here, the question is what “Be Perfect” refers to in the text. In Matthew 5:48 Jesus teaches “Be perfect as your Heaven…
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A Sociological Study Of The Great Commandment In Pentecostalism
136 Book Reviews / Pneuma 33 (2011) 109-169 Matthew T. Lee & Margaret M. Poloma, A Sociological Study of the Great Commandment in Pentecostalism…