Mark 11: 24: Vậy ta nói cho ngươi biết, khi các ngươi cầu nguyện, bất cứ cái gì mà các ngươi đòi hỏi, tin rằng các ngươi sẽ nhận được, và các ngươi sẽ có những cái đó. (Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.)
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Đức tin cần bao lớn? Làm được những gì?
Matthew 17: 20: Đúng vậy, ta nói cho ngươi biết, nếu ngươi có đức tin chỉ nhỏ bằng hạt cải, ngươi sẽ bảo trái núi này "Di chuyển từ chỗ này sang chỗ kia", nó sẽ di chuyển như vậy; và đối với ngươi không có gì mà làm không được. (Assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, "Move from here to there", and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.)
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Chú Thích - Chương II
1. Haught, James A., 2000 Years of Disbelief: Famous People with the Courage to Doubt, p. 324: Through logic, you can see that the church concept of an all-loving heavenly creator doesn't hold water. If a divine Maker fashioned everything that exists, he designed breast cancer for women, childhood leukemia, leprosy, AIDs, Alzheimer's didease, and Down's syndrome. He madated foxes to rip rabbits apart and cheetahs to slaughter fawns. No human would be cruel enough to plan such horrors. If a supernatural being did so, he's a monster, not an all-merciful father.
2. Martin, Malachi, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Church, p. 230: Pope John XXIII told the opening session of his council on October 11, 1962, that "false doctrines and opinions still abound," but that "today men spntaneously reject" them... But if Roncalli did not see where his new teaching was leading, hundreds of theologians and bishops did. In the sixties and the seventies after Roncalli's death, they drew these conclusions and abandoned belief in original sin, in the Devil, and in many other fundamental doctrines.
3. O'Brien, George Dennis, God and The New Haven Railway. And Why Neither One Is Doing Very Well, pp. 101-108: A religion of enlightenment improves our spiritual wisdom or our moral behavior by some teaching. A salvational religion converts our life by leading us to live our lives in another.
...When the great teacher dies, his teaching may well live on...He may have a teaching like the Noble Eightfold Path, which perpetuates his special wisdom. Even if the teacher leaves no teaching but only the example of an inquisitive mind and the ideal of the Good, like Socrates, the example of the teacher remains to be emulated by later students. All of those means of continuing "the life of the teacher" are eminently sensible and as broadly practiced as the planet is covered with talkers. But that scenario is not the New Testament line. It isn't the teacher's teaching that lives on, it is the "teacher". But if that how it is, it is no "teacher" but "savior". Since the