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Jesus Christ is the manifestation, human personification, or incarnation of the one God. [51] They contend, based on Colossians 2:9, that the concept of God's personhood is reserved for the immanent and incarnate presence of Jesus only. [52]
Matthew 5:17 is the 17th verse of the fifth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament and is part of the Sermon on the Mount.One of the most debated verses in the gospel, this verse begins a new section on Jesus and the Torah, [1] where Jesus discusses the Law and the Prophets.
Matthew 5:18 is the eighteenth verse of the fifth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament and is part of the Sermon on the Mount. In the previous verse, Jesus has stated that he came not to destroy the law, but fulfill it. In this verse, this claim is reinforced.
Unconditional election (also called sovereign election [1] or unconditional grace) is a Calvinist doctrine relating to predestination that describes the actions and motives of God prior to his creation of the world, when he predestined some people to receive salvation, the elect, and the rest he left to continue in their sins and receive the just punishment, eternal damnation, for their ...
The Mu'tazilites, on the other hand, insist that God's command and will are equal, and that God can both will and command only good. [5] Islamic philosopher Ibn Arabi (1165–1240) was opposed to the idea of Free Will, instead believing that God's will was absolutely Sovereign over all acts and that man's will didn't have any true existence. [6]
The exclusive use of the King James Version is recorded in a statement made by the Tennessee Association of Baptists in 1817, stating "We believe that any person, either in a public or private capacity who would adhere to, or propagate any alteration of the New Testament contrary to that already translated by order of King James the 1st, that is now in common in use, ought not to be encouraged ...
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In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel. The New International Version translates the passage as: He answered, "I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel."