Word: gospels
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...first big test for the postelection government, regardless of who leads it. Already, the public mood is turning against deploying more South Korean troops, especially after the brief kidnapping of seven missionaries last week. These evangelicals?part of a band of some 150 Korean Christians spreading their Gospel throughout the Middle East, according to the Korean NGO Global Civic Sharing?were stopped at a checkpoint early on April 8 and accused by a group of Iraqis of being American spies. (Pastor Byun Kyung Ju told TIME that at the same checkpoint she saw another group of Asians...
...book Hebrews, for instance, directly appropriates the Jewish sacrificial metaphor, except this time, Jesus is both priest and sacrifice, spilling, "not the blood of goats and calves but his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption." The Gospel of Mark favors Roman legal language for the freeing of slaves: "the Son of Man came ... to give his life as a ransom for many." The First Epistle of Peter, meanwhile, takes a radically different tack, posing Jesus' trials as occasion for imitation: "because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps." And Paul...
...enough man. Calvinist Evangelicals like Albert Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Convention Southern Seminary, continue to press that point. Pure exemplary theory, he says, "is just an account of one human trying to impress other humans with the moral of self-sacrifice, and that is not the Christian Gospel and never has been." Others note that the theory shortchanges sin and evil, giving the impression that there is nothing wrong with the world that can't be cured by human endeavor...
...little while later, Ramey reflected on the meeting. "It's not that these people are not nice people," he said politely. "But they have a different reality. You get so high up, you don't have a clue as to the real truth of the Gospel, which is that suffering is part of salvation...
...supporting characters in the next) is done in a different genre and features a different central couple. On The Run, the thriller of the series stars Belvaux, the director, as Bruno, who has just broken out of jail. Bruno desperately desires revenge and an opportunity to spread his political gospel, but has to avoid Gilbert Melki, who has a Javert like obsession with tracking down Bruno. The Trilogy makes for interesting viewing, particularly for those who have wondered what main characters would look like from another point of view. Through Thursday, April...