9 For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form,
10 and in Christ you have been brought to fullness. He is the head over every power and authority.
11 In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not performed by human hands. Your whole self ruled by the flesh was put off when you were circumcised by hrist,
12 having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through your faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.
The love of the other, the care and compassion we give is what makes our eternal life. The choice is eternity as compassionate, and love or greed and material in a non-material spiritual existence.
15:1 Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming to hear him. 2 But the Pharisees and the experts in the law were complaining, “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.” 3 So Jesus told them this parable: 4 “Which one of you, if he has a hundred sheep and loses one of them, would not leave the ninety-nine in the open pasture and go look for the one that is lost until he finds it? 5 Then when he has found it, he places it on his shoulders, rejoicing.
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome[a] it.
Philip Davies, emeritus professor of Old Testament Studies at Sheffield University, told Pigott he was "dumbstruck" at the sight of plates representing a picture map of ancient Jerusalem. "There is a cross in the foreground, and behind it is what has to be the tomb [of Jesus], a small building with an opening, and behind that the walls of the city," Davies explained. "There are walls depicted on other pages of these books, too, and they almost certainly refer to Jerusalem." David Elkington, an ancient religion scholar who heads the British research team investigating the find, has likewise pronounced this nothing less than "the major discovery of Christian history."
Diogenes... When asked when a man should marry, he replied that a young man ought not to marry just yet and an old man not at all.
Opinion: Marriage should be out of the question at all times. If is a financial arrangement based on partnership, partnerships rarely work. An arrangement based on love, lust or sex that is a failure. A relation created to build family is more rational, but there are many alternatives other than marriage to build a family.
Marriage functions as a relation to tend to home and children while the men go fight wars. Marriage and chivalry is the alternative to the Nordic approach to war as waged with both women and children.
Modern society has made marriage a moot point. Less than 50% of adults are married, and armies no longer discriminate by gender.
28"And why are you (A)worried about clothing? Observe how the lilies of the field grow; they do not toil nor do they spin,
29yet I say to you that not even (B)Solomon in all his glory clothed himself like one of these.
30"But if God so clothes the (C)grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, will He not much more clothe you? (D)You of little faith!
Most of the 534 names on the inscription are Greek: 405 (76%). 123 people (23%) had a Latin name, whereas the remaining 5 inscriptions show Hebrew, Aramaean and hybrid names.
This confirms that most Roman Jews were culturally Greek, not Latins. Another argument for the Greek orientation of Roman Judaism can be found in the letter that the Christian teacher Paul wrote to the Roman Christians: he gives his regards to 18 people with a Greek name, 4 Latins and 2 Hebrews (Epistle to the Romans 16.5-16).
Some ancient cultures promoted gleaning as an early form of a welfare system. In the Old Testament According to the Holiness Code and the Deuteronomic Code of the Torah, farmers should leave the corners of their fields unharvested, and they should not attempt to harvest any left-overs that had been forgotten when they had harvested the majority of a field.
