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We are called to be the sons of God in the sense to love each other. Christian community has the task to follow God’s example to help others with love as Jesus did with his sacrifice (Ephesians 5:1-2). In this way, Paul is inviting people to imitate Jesus’ example, in the present world. Also, in these verses to the Ephesians, he affirms that when people forgive and sacrifice for others, they are showing true love for the neighbor. However, the world is not living a great situation; there are several cases in which one another offends themselves in different ways. Later, Paul affirms in the same letter that the days are evil (5:16). Nowadays, there are difficult times; daily we are noticing many catastrophes around the world which most of them are caused by the man. Hence, the Christians must help others, even if is someone that offends us or has …show more content…

There are several cases in which different Christian beliefs have been in conflict. This is like the case of the Gentiles and the Jews. Paul argues in many cases that both groups are called to be Christians; therefore, there is no necessity to create conflicts. According to Paul, there is one body in the Christian community no matter the differences between the people (1 Corinthians 12:13). Also, in his letter to the Galatians, he affirms that “there is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus” (3:28). We need to apply this principle in the actual world. We cannot exclude and judge people that want to be part of the Christian community for the reason that we are one in the church of Jesus Christ. The only one that can judge other is God because He is the true master of mankind (Romans

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