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Finding Jesus at the United Church of Canada

Jesus Christ to the world (UCC, 2007, p. 7). Through baptism, each person is called to some personal expression of ministry, as in...

Origen/Early Christian Exegete

beings. Modern scholars agree with Origen that portions of Matthews Gospel were added to the original at a later date. Origens ca...

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...

Moses & Jesus Leadership Characteristics

Sacrificial leadership: Jesus sacrificed Himself for all of mankind (Chandra, 2004). Servant leadership is most often associated...

Abraham And Moses - Leadership Characteristics

(Friedman and Friedman, 2006). As an example, he was once sitting outside his tent on a very hot day, he saw three strangers and i...

How Jesus Is Described In The Gospel Of Matthew

phrase could mean the individual had a special relationship with God, therefore, they must learn the meaning of this in terms of J...

Salvation and the Old Testament

this account of Jesus ministry portrays it as a "coherent judgment comprising sin, chastisement and restoration" (Clifford and Ana...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Thematic Analysis of Old and New Testament Scripture

duties. Leviticus 19:32-33 details the societal obligation to respect the elderly, and also instructs that strangers should not be...

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 ...

Leadership Style of Nehemiah

essential attributes of a leader in any time. He shared that vision with others (Nehemiah : A Visionary Leader), another step take...

God's Image and Genesis

under the dominion of God. However, nothing in scripture -- or history for that matter -- suggests that human beings are similar...

Life of Paul and New Testament Scripture

large eyes, and his eyebrows set, and his nose was somewhat long" (Miller, 1997, p. 39). While this description is intriguing, the...

The Changing Face of Jesus by Geza Vermes

"great contribution" to the quest for the historical Jesus, according to Fredriksen, 2002, has been to formulate an "interpretativ...

Historical Figure of Moses

Akhenaten, the ruler who renounced the many gods of Egypt in favor of the sun god as the only deity (Wolf, 2000). This position ho...

Introduction to the Old Testament by Anthony Ceresko

Old Testament as a straightforward history. Rather, both men advocate that these texts emerged as a "self-defining narrative of a ...

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...