For the Christian
Science Quarterly Bible Lesson for Sunday, May 6, 2001
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Golden Text and Responsive Reading
- What does everlasting punishment have to do with "the
second death" mentioned in last week's Bible Lesson?
- What does being judgmental have to do with the subject
of "everlasting punishment" and "the second death?"
- What does being merciful have to do with the subject
of "everlasting punishment?"
Section 1
- What is our means of salvation from our sins and from
the sins of others?
- How is our being forgiven tied to our forgiveness of
everyone else for anything that they appear to have injuriously
thought, said, or done against oneself or against one's family, friends,
nation, or world?
Section 2
- What is the relationship of the following?
- The Lord's Prayer's "May your Kingdom come"
(Luk 11:2, Mat 6:10)
- "Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom..."
(Psa 143:1,13)
- "The kingdom of God has come to you." (Luk
10:20)
- "The kingdom of God is within you." (Luk 17:20,21)
- "Repent: for the kingdom
of heaven is at hand." (Mat 4:17, Bible citation
#8)
- What do revenge and animosity have to do with the subject
of "everlasting punishment?"
- How genuine is one's claims to being a Christian or a
Christian Scientist if one does not love and forgive all enemies?
Section 3
- How important is it for us to confess our sins?
Section 4
- How was it that Jesus could equate his two statements,
"Your sins are forgiven" and "Get up, pick up your mat,
and walk"?
- How does "forgiveness" as Jesus taught and
practiced it relate to Christian healing of both sin and sickness?
- How do Jesus' practice and teaching of "forgiveness"
relate (1) to his Jesus' role as "an advocate" (comforter,
paraclete, counselor, defense attorney, 1Jo 2:1) and (2) to the role of
"another Advocate"
that Jesus promised (John 14:16)?
Section 5
- What was the relationship between Paul, Onesimus, and
Philemon?
- What was the point of Paul's letter to Philemon?
- What is the possible connection between Onesimus and
the Letter to the Ephesians, which was also cited in this section of the
Bible Lesson?
- What is the value of helping each other?
Section 6
- How can we here and now experience God's mercy?
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