Essays 181 - 210
wanted only man as His own: God, Who has fatherly concern for everyone, has willed that all men should constitute one family and ...
that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures" (1 Corinthians 15:3-4). In this letter, Paul...
the Big Bang, that was the "source of mystical illumination" (Henderson). This completely undermines the Church dogma that God is...
casting out evil from the possessed man and healing Peters mother-in-law and they brought many to the door asking to be healed ((M...
cooked up nationally" (Rivera). This Orlando, Florida organization grew by 8 percent in its revenues in 2004 and 2005, which sho...
to occur back on earth. The counter view of rapture and Christs second coming, however, is that Christians will also have to end...
is the potential for making a bad situation even worse. The therapist must guard against that potential while still providing the...
For example, when Jesus metaphorically gives Peter the "keys to the kingdom," Jesus refers to a verse in Isaiah that speaks of the...
in their fathers footsteps. Like Jesus, John began preaching at the age of 30 (Catholic Online, 2007). His location was the banks...
a core belief of Christianity that one can find on any Christian Church Web site, regardless of whether that organization is a mai...
one had to make a leap of faith because history was unimportant in the quest for Jesus (Geisler, 1999). Cain (1999) reports the ...
does not have a split hoof; it is ceremonially unclean for you." As this suggests, only animals that chewed its cue and possessed ...
Father, as being from above, and other such phrases (Kasper, 1978, p. 173). Jesus was in all ways like us with one great exceptio...
all the rest of it. Nope, Jesus would be a man of the 21st century, an adult, and then they could see how he reacted to the world ...
strong independent Church (based on the assumption of the Corpus Christianum common to all three confessions) through which he des...
healers could be executed (Healing Rays, 2007). In 1951, the Church made spiritual healing legal again but it is still tarnished w...
one true God. As this suggests, biblical allusions are plentiful in the Old English epic, particularly in regards to the Old Test...
public inconveniencey, it is the will of God... that the established government be obeyed--and no longer" (1755). Christ was also...
There can be no doubt that Stowe intended her novel to be more of a religious than sociopolitical text. It includes close to 100 ...
do this, Da Vinci prepared the wall as if he were painting on panel (Rosand, 2001). The Last Supper pictures the moment when Jes...
thinking" (Wittkowski 2). The main thrust of such interpretations is that Santiago, in his actions, is in fact an "imitatio Christ...
time. Perhaps in the distance between the time of Christ and modern times, the death of Christ by way of crucifixion has been sa...
sacrificed consorts who was killed by the Father Zeus after the fertility rite that coupled him with his Mother (Graves 89). Also ...
my Beloved, with you I am well pleased (Luke 4:32) (Willimon, 2001, p. 7). The scene reminds the reader of the account of the crea...
slapped him and said, "Prophesy to us, Christ, Who hit you?" All Gospel accounts agree that Jesus was brutalized at this point, bu...
the christologies of the New Testament. Two of the most significant approaches are that of Paul and John. Maas (2004) points out...
ordinary Jewish resident who grew up in Nazareth in Galilee (Attridge, 1998). He lived and died as a Jew and He had to have been i...
Joseph the presentation of their early beginnings is told merely through the fact we see Mary pregnant and we watch the struggling...
Man, 2005). One of the most remarkable features of the phrases use in the Gospels is that is used exclusively by Christ and is nev...
society, leading to their religious viewpoint forming the basis of social morality. However, there is also something of a gre...