Gospel According To Matthew
Many have attempted to derive a purely "social gospel" from the Gospel According to Matthew, that is, an account of the ethical teachings of Jesus that is stripped of all references to the divinity of Jesus Christ, or to a final judgement. It is not only coherent to derive a social ethic from the Gospel, but also is imperative in order to mitigate the differences among religions which have caused followers to believe in their own absolute truth and to judge others as misguided. At the same time, this has driven generations of followers to commit acts of violence in the name of God over subtle and relatively unimportant differences. The teachings of Jesus, which are found in the "Gospel According to Mathew" are mostly ethical; however, they revolve around a religious framework. In his teachings, Jesus makes reference to God as the fulfillment of life. More importantly, he does not assert that one has to accept him as a deity in order to gain a place in heaven. there is no......
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