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Christianity's Relationship to Judaism

as his twelve disciples, and the authors of the books of the New Testament, as well as the vast majority of the earliest Christian...

Scripture and Owning Slaves

author explains, based on this belief, "slavery of Africans became religiously justifiable."iii Proslavery advocates based their c...

Servant Leadership and Shepherding Ministry

and people were referred to as sheep: "When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless,...

Jesus Taught About Love, Compassion, Justice, Hospitality, Hope

way to be part of the community.3 Each person had a role - the host would extend a graceful welcome to the guest and the guest wou...

Theological Debate/Inerrancy of Scripture

seeming "errors" in scriptural passages. The position of Charles A. Briggs on inerrancy Briggs maintained that neither the Scrip...

One of the Themes Throughout the Bible

the laws regarding the firstborn, substituting something for an animal or a person (New International Version, Exod. 113:13; 34:20...

Biblical Stance Toward Food Production

This research paper begins by relating the topic of food production to Exodus 16 and 17, i.e., the narratives associated with the ...

Biblical Basis for Worship

Law of Christ. The Israelites believed that the Spirit of God lived in the Tabernacle, which is why it was guarded so carefully. I...

Liberal Christianity

only in extremes. Right versus left; rich versus poor; conservative versus liberal: all these factions are at each others throats ...

Tripitaka in Wu Cheng'en's 'Monkey'

In an analytic essay consisting of five pages the Tripitaka character in Monkey is examined in terms of his representation of man ...

A World View and Personal Faith

14). Consequently, Barth began to formulate a personal theology based solely on scripture, virtually ignoring the theological prin...

Predestination and the Bible

In eight pages predestination is considered in terms of what it is and whether or not it is taught in the Scriptures of the Bible....

Psychology from a Christian Perspective

The focus of this paper consisting of 20 pages is Meier et al's Introduction to Psychology and Counseling: Christian Perspectives ...

The Book of Genesis and the Depiction of the Personality of Yahweh

Yahweh's personality and heterogeneous presentation as depicted in Hebrew scriptures are described in eight pages. Ten sources ar...

The New Testament and The Mission of Serving Jesus

This paper discusses scripture from the New Testament and examines what is involved in the mission of a servant of Jesus Christ. ...

Chapter 17 of the Book of John

in the Gospel according to John. Therefore, it seems appropriate, before addressing John 17 directly, to survey how the theme of u...

Money and the Views of Jesus

the tables of the moneychangers in the temple. Besides the symbolism of this act, which was to purify the temple from a "den of th...

Jesus and Adversarial People

the answers. Moreover, having sent His Son to lead by example, one has only to follow Jesus teachings when it comes to dealing wi...

Achievement of Faith in Easing Conflict

(Psalm 34:19). Today, modern Man is attempting to find his own solutions for the problems/ conflicts that face him, and innumerab...

Holy Scriptures and Covenants of God

sovereignty. Moreover, another significant point relevant to Gods covenants is that they cannot be revoked or nullified. Nor can ...

The Bible And The Koran - Christianity And Islam

on which a religion is based. It is one of the forms of communication in the religion along with ritual activities, architecture a...

Development of Theology of Christology

First Ecumenical Council of the Catholic Church was held at Nicea (also referred to as Nicaea) in 325 in order to address the topi...

John Wesley's Sermon 43: The Scripture Way of Salvation

poses some significant questions, including the question of what is salvation, the role that faith plays in salvation and how fait...

Psychological Explanation of Faith Based Behavior

first published in 1934). Although there are some subtle differences in their theories, each of these scholars saw humans as bein...

Scripture Windows by Peter Pitzele

(Pitzele 24). This process can be encouraged by reading by Bible commentary or even by viewing how filmmakers have interpreted scr...

Paul's Perspective on the Christ Event

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...

Jesus of Nazareth As God

born a Jew and lived under the Jewish law and system (Galatians 4:4). * Jesus life was characterized by service and humility (Phil...

Demons and Angels

angels lost their original holiness and became corrupt in nature and conduct.5 In 2 Peter 2:4, it tells of how some were cast into...

Biblical Viewpoints on Forgiveness

be pardoned" (Luke 6:37). God is clearly telling us that it is in our own best interests to forgive others for whatever umbrage w...

Evaluating Two Buddhism Texts

or Ego" (Rahula, 1986, p. 23). Conze s (1959) Buddhist Scriptures is another book that is rather comprehensive as well. Conze is ...