Brother Matthew: One Disciples Love Story

An Uneasy Essay on the Undead in Film ; 2nd ed. Many of his books, most of which were published by Forthcoming Books, are available for download as PDF files at his website: Click to start a discussion of the article above. The grave problem with this is that very few dead people can legitimately assert: The dead are far less proficient than the living at detecting whether someone is definitely dead, and hence tend on a substantial number of occasions to bury the living too. With the coming of Jesus Christ, many people became alive.

The two earliest examples are: Who was a disciple who, properly speaking, could not have been named and about whom rumors could, indeed did spread among the believers that he would not die? A disciple who was resurrected, thus who was fully alive, no longer a mortal, that is, no longer dead while alive, therefore no longer subject to over-turns: Rainer Maria Rilke, Selected Poems , trans. Oxford University Press, , They will kill him, and after three days he will rise.

Vintage, ; the first German edition was published in , The death on the cross of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, one of the hypostases of the divine Trinity, could have functioned as a step toward returning to a strict monotheism; did the Holy Spirit also die, and if so in what circumstances? Wayne State University Press, , A thorough death of the God of Christianity would involve at least three deaths: We are informed about this twice by the footnotes to John There is an insistence in Acts Acts 2: Jesus Christ, who had a double nature, divine and human, belonged conjointly to an unredeemed world and to a redeemed one.

Then some young men came forward, wrapped up his body, and carried him out and buried him.

1. James, Brother of Jesus?
2. THE GOSPEL OF ST. MATTHEW.
3. Peter and Andrew.
4. Who Were the 12 Disciples (Apostles) & What We Know about Them.
5. Who were the 12 disciples?;
6. Introduction.
7. Finding Gordon Lipschitz.

About three hours later his wife came in, not knowing what had happened…. The feet of the men who buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out also. Your email subscription is almost complete. An email has been sent to the email address you entered. In this email is a confirmation link. Please click on this link to confirm your subscription.

A Human Who Resurrected God! When Hurricane Sandy tore through the Eastern US on the eve of the presidential elections, it seemed that a certain fatigue had found a strange mirror image in the libidinal force of completely absurd weather patterns, that a tired resignation to a lack of options in the political sphere had actually mutated into an apocalyptic revolution in the atmosphere. It was as if a negative omen had come with the prospect that the next global insurgency could arrive by way of non-human forces Money and language have something in common: They are nothing but symbols, conventions, flatus vocis , but they have the power to persuade human beings to act, to work, and to transform physical things: Money makes things happen.

It is the source of action in the world and perhaps the only power we invest in. Perhaps in every other respect, in every other value, bankruptcy has been declared, giving money the power of some sacred deity, As Good as it Gets A commonplace of media punditry in the twenty-first century concerns the deep divide in American politics. Whether in terms of political parties, red states and blue states, support or opposition to US militarism in Afghanistan and Iraq, or the ongoing culture war between the religious right and the secular left, the United States is depicted as a nation split in its fundamental ethico-political self-understanding.

This depiction is misleading. It is a biblical concept that keeping all but one law still renders us accountable. For example, James says, by refusing to commit adultery, but on the other hand committing murder, it is as if we are guilty of breaking the whole law James 2: The idea here is that the law cannot be divided into important and less important commands.

We must adhere to all of it, realizing that God will judge us according to its principles, which, if kept in the spirit, free us from the penalty of sin: He gives a second example of the requirement for faith to be demonstrated in action, pointing out the needs of those members of the believing community who are going hungry. It is a form of hypocrisy to hear their pleas, express hope for their eventual nourishment, and yet do nothing practical to help. Faith must be proven by works.

Disciple whom Jesus loved

Without them faith is dead verses 14— Can that faith save him? In a third example of belief demonstrated by action, James turns in chapter three to an extended discussion of the need to bridle or control the tongue, a subject he has touched on earlier James 1: He begins by mentioning that teaching is a hazardous occupation, because those who do it are responsible for what they say, and it is easy to say things imperfectly James 3: For this reason alone people should not be too ambitious to become teachers.

The difficulty of controlling the tongue is contrasted with how easily we guide much larger objects. We lead a horse by putting a bit into its mouth and steer a ship with a rudder. Small things can control big objects. But the tongue, which is also small in comparison to the body, is itself very difficult to control. Its effect can be like a small spark in a dry forest. The tongue is likened to a fire that can set nature ablaze. Instead of guiding the body, the tongue often causes it great trouble, ruining the whole person. The paradox, says James, is that we bless God with the tongue but at the same time use it to curse our fellow humans who are made in His image.

This is plainly wrong. How do humans then manage to bridle the tongue? It requires a special kind of wisdom that has to be acted out in everyday life verse He asks where such problems originate James 4: His answer is that they come from within the human heart that is frustrated by not getting what it wants—though too often it wants what it ought not to have.

To achieve its ends it will murder fellowman or go to war. This approach has no possibility of bringing satisfaction. Even when they do ask God for things, they do not receive them because they are asking from wrong motivations or for wrong things. James exhorts them to become humble, submit to God, resist the devil—in sum, to change their ways verses 7— One of the problems they have is speaking evil of and judging each other.

Then, opening their treasures, they offered him gifts, gold and frankincense and myrrh. This was to fulfil what the Lord had spoken by the prophet, "Out of Egypt have I called my son. Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trodden under foot by men. A city set on a hill cannot be hid.

But if any one strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also; 40 and if any one would sue you and take your coat, let him have your cloak as well; 41 and if any one forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles. Do not even the tax collectors do the same? Do not even the Gentiles do the same?

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Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us; And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil. So, if your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light; 23 but if your eye is not sound, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

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You cannot serve God and mammon. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Are you not of more value than they? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin; 29 yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day. Are grapes gathered from thorns, or figs from thistles? Have you come here to torment us before the time?

The days will come, when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast. And Jesus sternly charged them, "See that no one knows it. You received without paying, give without pay. But he who endures to the end will be saved. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they malign those of his household. And not one of them will fall to the ground without your Father's will. A reed shaken by the wind? To see a man clothed in soft raiment?

Behold, those who wear soft raiment are in kings' houses. To see a prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet.

Matthew the Apostle

It is like children sitting in the market places and calling to their playmates, 17 'We piped to you, and you did not dance; we wailed, and you did not mourn. You shall be brought down to Hades. For if the mighty works done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day. And they asked him, "Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath?

So it is lawful to do good on the sabbath. And many followed him, and he healed them all, 16 and ordered them not to make him known. I will put my Spirit upon him, and he shall proclaim justice to the Gentiles. Therefore they shall be your judges. Then indeed he may plunder his house. For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. So shall it be also with this evil generation. How then has it weeds?

James the Unbeliever

And his disciples came to him, saying, "Explain to us the parable of the weeds of the field. He who has ears, let him hear. The angels will come out and separate the evil from the righteous, 50 and throw them into the furnace of fire; there men will weep and gnash their teeth.

Is not his mother called Mary? And are not his brothers James and Joseph and Simon and Judas? Where then did this man get all this? But Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor except in his own country and in his own house.