what does the word "beatitudes" mean?
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The Beatitudes (from Latin, beatitudo, happiness) is the name given to a well-known, definitive and central, portion of the Sermon on the Mount, recorded in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke.\n\nThe beatitudes present in both Matthew and Luke are:\n\n    * the poor (Matthew alters this to poor in spirit) - the text says that theirs is the kingdom of heaven\n    * mourners (Luke has those who are weeping) - the text says that they will be comforted (Luke has will laugh)\n    * the hungry (Matthew alters this to hungry and thirst after righteousness) - the text says that they will be filled (Luke has be satisfied)\n    * those persecuted for being righteous (rather than righteous, Luke has followers of the Son of Man) - the text says that theirs is the kingdom of heaven\n\nThe beatitudes only present in Matthew are:\n\n    * the meek - the text says that they will inherit the earth\n    * the merciful - the text says that they will obtain mercy\n    * the pure in heart - the text says that they will see God\n    * the peacemakers - the text says that they will be called the children of God
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1.) A warning\n2.) A confirmation\n3.) A direction\nConstantine who was a leader saw a burning cross in the sky\ngave him the strength and encouragement to continue his battle in the christian faith.\nLara, don't give up on Jesus.  I'll be praying for you.
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The Greek word "parousia" means the second coming of Jesus Christ and parousial means related to that second coming.  If you want to ring the changes, you could try "escatological".
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It means you have not chosen a specific religion, or follow a specific diety.\n\nA better interpretation would be, "without faith"
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"Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity."\n\nTRUE Beauty is within.\n\nMaintenance is by prayer and meditation and doing good works...\n\n...and loving my neighbor as myself....
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PERFECTION G5047 τελειότης teleiotēs tel-i-ot'-ace\nFrom G5046; (the state) completeness (mentally or morally): - perfection (-ness).\n\nThe word (perfection) means "full age or maturity as Christians". God wants us to bear fruit.\n\nStudy to shew thyself approved.
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"there are none righteous; no, not one"\n"all have sinned and come short of the glory of God"\n"I am the way, the truth, the life.  no man comes to the Father except through me."
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In Classical Latin it is the term for "religious affairs"\n\nliteral meaning "things relating to a deity"
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While I agree that 7 is a number that represents perfection or completion, I can't find that passage either.  If you'd give your reference, I'd be happy to look at it and give you a better answer.\n\nLOL!  \n\nAh, well there you have it!  I cannot defend made up verses.\n\nMaybe it's in the same version that has "cleanliness is next to Godliness......."
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.Roman catholic.\nIt means: God's will be done.
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not quite sure what you mean. explain a little please.\n\nI don't think there is a scripture reference atleast not that I can find. \n\nlet's break this down though. Fulfill means to give the full meaning or to cause something to come true. mercy is kindness and forgiveness.\n\nso someone could pray that God's kindness and forgivness be shown or really known in a persons life.
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This is from Matthew Henry's Commmentary: \n\nPro 30:24-28 - \nI. Agur, having specified four things that seem great and yet are really contemptible, here specifies four things that are little and yet are very admirable, great in miniature, in which, as bishop Patrick observes, he teaches us several good lessons; as, 1. Not to admire bodily bulk, or beauty, or strength, nor to value persons or think the better of them for such advantages, but to judge of men by their wisdom and conduct, their industry and application to business, which are characters that deserve respect. 2. To admire the wisdom and power of the Creator in the smallest and most despicable animals, in an ant as much as in an elephant. 3. To blame ourselves who do not act so much for our own true interest as the meanest creatures do for theirs. 4. Not to despise the weak things of the world; there are those that are little upon the earth, poor in the world and of small account, and yet are exceedingly wise, wise for their souls and another world, and those are exceedingly wise, wiser than their neighbours. Margin, They are wise, made wise by the special instinct of nature. All that are wise to salvation are made wise by the grace of God.\nII. Those he specifies are, 1. The ants, minute animals and very weak, and yet they are very industrious in gathering proper food, and have a strange sagacity to do it in the summer, the proper time. This is so great a piece of wisdom that we may learn of them to be wise for futurity, Pro_6:6. When the ravening lions lack, and suffer hunger, the laborious ants have plenty, and know no want. 2. The conies, or, as some rather understand it, the Arabian mice, field mice, weak creatures, and very timorous, yet they have so much wisdom as to make their houses in the rocks, where they are well guarded, and their feebleness makes them take shelter in those natural fastnesses and fortifications. Sense of our own indigence and weakness should drive us to him that is a rock higher than we for shelter and support; there let us make our habitation. 3. The locusts; they are little also, and have no king, as the bees have, but they go forth all of them by bands, like an army in battle-array; and, observing such good order among themselves, it is not any inconvenience to them that they have no king. They are called God's great army (Joe_2:25); for, when he pleases, he musters, he marshals them, and wages war by them, as he did upon Egypt. They go forth all of them gathered together (so the margin); sense of weakness should engage us to keep together, that we may strengthen the hands of one another. 4. The spider, an insect, but as great an instance of industry in our houses as the ants are in the field. Spiders are very ingenious in weaving their webs with a fineness and exactness such as no art can pretend to come near: They take hold with their hands, and spin a fine thread out of their own bowels, with a great deal of art; and they are not only in poor men's cottages, but in kings' palaces, notwithstanding all the care that is there taken to destroy them. Providence wonderfully keeps up those kinds of creatures, not only which men provide not for, but which every man's hand is against and seeks the destruction of. Those that will mind their business, and take hold of it with their hands, shall be in kings' palaces; sooner or later, they will get preferment, and may go on with it, notwithstanding the difficulties and discouragements they meet with. If one well-spun web be swept away, it is but making another.\n\n\nAnd this is a commentary from my Bible:\n30:24-28   Ants...rock badgers...locusts...spider: The identified characteristics of these creatures summarize the teaching of the entire book.  The ants demonstrate foresight; the rock badgers, security; the locusts, cooperation with others; the spider, usefulness (in eliminating less desirable insects).  The alternate reasing for spider, "lizard" would be
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We have the wrong idea about what the word "holy" means. The actual word means "set apart". Am I set apart? Yes. Am I a saint? Only because I am clothed with the righteousness of Christ--not of my doing.
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Pure Conviction--in my heart.\n\nIt's not a 'feeling'.  It's 'KNOWING' you have done something wrong that displeases God..  Your HEART knows it,...........
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Okay, I'll try to answer but the fact that you're jim_darwin2 is really blowing my mind, haha\n\nReligion:\n1 a : the state of a religious <a nun in her 20th year of religion> b (1) : the service and worship of God or the supernatural (2) : commitment or devotion to religious faith or observance\n2 : a personal set or institutionalized system of religious attitudes, beliefs, and practices\n3 archaic : scrupulous conformity : CONSCIENTIOUSNESS\n4 : a cause, principle, or system of beliefs held to with ardor and faith\n\nSpirituality:\n1 : something that in ecclesiastical law belongs to the church or to a cleric as such\n2 : CLERGY\n3 : sensitivity or attachment to religious values\n4 : the quality or state of being spiritual
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"Ekklesia" - literally gathering, group, assembly.  House (οικία) is also meant to be taken literally.  \n\nBased on my extensive research...I would say that it means:\n\n"the church that is in their house."\n\n:-)
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It's the name of  private Catholic club.  It means "in this sign you shall conquer".