Parable of the good Samaritan: "Love your neighbour as yourself." It wasn't the priest or Levite that was a nighbour to the man, but the Samaritan.
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Card 8
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"When an alien lives with you in your land, do not ill-treat him"
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Card 9
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Story of Noah and Ham: Ham disrespected Noah and therefore Noah cursed Ham's son Canaan. It is believed that Canaan was black. "May Canaan be the slave"
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The Story of the Canaanites: Jesus said "It is not right to take the children's bread and toss it to the dogs". By 'dogs', Jesus meant the Canaanites.
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"I commend you to our sister Pheobe, a servant of the Church in Cenchrea. I ask you to receive her in the Lord in a way worthy of the Saints". (It seems that women had greater importance in the early Church)
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"'If you consider me a believer in the Lord', she said,'come and stay at my house'. And she persuaded us."
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"So God created man in his own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them."
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"Jesus said 'Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the Church'."
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"A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. I do not permit a woman to teach or have authority over a man; she must be silent."