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 * Christianity: Sermon on the Mount

Sermon on the Mount** - Sermon on the Mount is an explanation of the Ten Commandments. - Just like the Ten Commandments it concerns his disciples and every follower. - They remind us of the Ten Commandments given on Mount Sinai. - There is a resemblance between the Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount but there is a difference in degree and perspective. - The best-known written portions of the sermon are the Beatitudes, found at the beginning of the section. The Sermon also contains the Lord's Prayer and the injunctions to "resist not evil" and "turn the other cheek", as well as Jesus' version of the Golden Rule, or Ten Commandments.

- New Testament Jesus defines what true law keeping is in his sermon on the mount. - Yet many think we need to obey this sermon for salvation when it was actually a rebuttal against Pharisaic Judaism and the true intention of the law as given to Moses. - Karn Hattin was the scene where the beatitudes were said. - In the Sermon on the Mount, guidance was given in the affirmative, uprooting evil intention rather than waiting to destroy its fruits. - The Sermon on the Mount is an advanced guide from the same God to His people for their salvation. - Chapters 5,6,7 of Matthew. - The Sermon on the Mount is not Law, but Gospel. For this is indeed the difference between Law and Gospel: the Law leaves man to rely upon his own strength and challenges him to do his utmost. The Gospel, on the other hand, brings man before the gift of God and challenges him really to make the inexpressible gift of God the basis for his life.
 * Setting/Purpose**

Comparison: Text Comparison Sermon on the Mount explains the Ten Commandments, a set of regulations that accompany the thought that if you are good, good things will happen to you. If you follow these regulations it is thought that you will be treated well when you die. In the Deer Park Sermon it talks about the eight fold path and how the right way to live is to ignore extremes and follow the middle way in which when this happens you will be treated well, through enlightenment, nirvana, or reincarnation.

Glassman, Bruce, and Gary Zacharias. Religions and Religious Movements Christianity. Farmington Hills, Michigan: Bonnie Szumski, 2006.

"The Sermon on the Mount." __Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America__. 1990. Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America. 2 Jan. 2008 .

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