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The Sermon On The Mount Preaches

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Throughout this course we have studied an incredibly diverse and extensive selection of gods, both monotheistic and polytheistic. Ironically though, the God that I would entrust my life to is the same God that I would avoid at all costs. Jesus in the New Testament, specifically during “The Sermon on the Mount” preaches a promising message of love and hatred of sin. However, in the “Book of Job” in the Old Testament, God is rather cruel and heartless and uses his loyal follower Job as a pawn in a petty argument with Satan. While they are both technically the same God, their actions show that they do not share the same beliefs. In the New Testament, Jesus preaches what we consider to be common courtesy, for example he places an emphasis on

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