Analysis of the Four Gospels
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The New Testament gospels of Mark, Matthew, Luke and John offer four remarkably similar accounts of the life and passion of Jesus Christ. Scholars generally contend that Mark is the earliest of the four accounts and that it functions as a "major narrative source" for the gospels of Matthew and Luke. Due to their strong resemblance to Mark, Matthew and Luke are usually referred to as the Synoptic gospels. In contrast, John appears to have been written later as a "corrective Christology" as an innovative example of a biography meant to correct a particular early Christian community's misunderstanding of Christ. John structures his narrative order differently than the other three gospels. Additionally, the birth account of Jesus is omitted in favor of rendering Christ as the "personal, historical manifestation of the Logos" or Divine Word. In John, more attention is given to the actual teachings which Jesus delivered.Mark, the most elemental of the four gospels, begins with the proclamation of John the Baptist. Immediately following this, Jesus is seen being baptized and tested in the desert. After his fasting, Jesus began his ministry in Galilea. Mark emphasizes Jesus' curative powers by recounting how he cured a man of an unclean spirit and Simon's mother-in-law. Mark covers the parables, prophecies and miracles of Jesus Christ. The Transfiguration illuminates how the community needed to recognize Jesus as Lord. The paradox of Mar
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n the Day of Judgment, all who have believed and followed Christ's teachings shall instaneously be saved and dramatically changed into spirit by God.
According to the Doctrine of Love, the virtue of love is to be placed above all others. One can be an eloquent speaker and be nothing without love. One can have the intelligence to decipher all of scripture, to preach well, and to be blessed with deep faith, but without love then the self is to be seen as nothing. The greatest of all gifts is seen to be love.
Revelation
John inspired by God wrote down this account of the world's conclusion. Revelation records the apocalypse as an unveiling of the Last Things. As its author, John emphasizes visions and raptures and all that is mysterious within his literary constructions. Writing to the seven churches of Asia, John indicates that he has served as a scribe to the vision which he witnessed at Patmos. In descriptions rich with symbolism and numerology, John indicates that he first encountered the Son of man who identifies himself as "the First and the Last." John is told to write down all that he sees so that Christians can discern that Christ now holds the keys of life and death. Instructed to write to each of the seven
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