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The wise decision is to wager that God exists, since "If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing", meaning one can gain eternal life if God exists, but if not, one will be no worse off in death than if one had not believed. On the other hand, if you bet against God, win or lose, you either gain nothing or lose everything.
The others exhibit Him as man conversing with men for a season; he pronounces Him God abiding with God in the beginning, saying, The Same was in the beginning with God. The others relate the great deeds which He did amongst men; he that God the Father made every creature through Him, saying, All things were made by Him, and without Him was not ...
The Mote and the Beam is a parable of Jesus given in the Sermon on the Mount [1] in the Gospel of Matthew, chapter 7, verses 1 to 5. The discourse is fairly brief, and begins by warning his followers of the dangers of judging others, stating that they too would be judged by the same standard.
The context of the verse is the passage in John 1:1-18, Hymn to the Word dealing with the divinity, incarnation and authority of Jesus. Most Christian scholars agree that these words teach us, that all created things, visible, or invisible, were made by this eternal word, that is the Son of God. [1]
Judas making a bargain with the priests, depicted by Duccio, early 14th century Bargain of Judas, fresco by Lippo Memmi, 14th century. The Bargain of Judas is a biblical episode related to the life of Jesus which is recorded in all three Synoptic Gospels, Matthew 26:14–16, Mark 14:10–11 and Luke 22:1–6.
John 1:18 is the eighteenth verse in the first chapter of the Gospel of John in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. This verse concludes the prologue to the Gospel of John, which is also called the "Hymn to the Word". Its message recalls verse 1, asserting that there is no other possibility for humans to know God except through Jesus ...
Thus he argues that swearing by the earth is the same as swearing by God as the earth is "god's footstool", while swearing by Jerusalem is the same as swearing by God as it is his city. [5] Matthew 5:33-5:36 is reiterated in James 5:12: But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth,
Gundry suggests that this is a reference to Matthew 4:3, which mentions "every word out of the mouth of God". Gundry thus feels that this turn of phrase is meant to imply that the Sermon are words spoken by God. [20] Luke's Sermon on the Plain opens with Jesus "lifting up his eyes", and the two phrases might be related. [21]