ID: When one has a belief that is mutually opposed to a church or religious system.…
Lea, Thomas D., and David A. Black. The New Testament: Its Background and Message. 2d ed. Nashville, TN: Broadman and Holman Publishers, 2003.…
Polytheism: Belief system in which multiple deities are revered as creators and arbiters of all that exists in the universe.…
The New Testament begins with Paul’s three missionary journeys, in which his mission was to plant churches and teachings about the Lord. It is safe to say there were many other great church planters after the death of the apostle Paul, such as Peter and John. I plan to elaborate on the main issues facing each of the churches addressed by the General Epistles.…
Cited: The Holy Bible: New International Version : Containing the Old Testament and the New Testament. Colorado Springs, CO: International Bible Society, 1984. Print.…
As diverse and multicultural as today’s society may appear, the majority of individuals have still heard of the gospels that help make up the Holy Bible. Although there are many in the Bible, the four canonical gospels, Mathew, Mark, Luke, and John, are perhaps the most widely recognized. These four, although composed by different individuals, share many similarities in common such as how those who encounter Jesus after his resurrection behave. Even certain traits that characterize Jesus himself after resurrection are somewhat related.…
[21] Steven Chalke, Alan Mann; The Last Message of Jesus (Grand Rapids: Zondervans, 2003), 182-183.…
In Matthew 36-39, Jesus gives the two greatest commandments. Firstly, people should love their God with all their…
The Holy Bible: Containing the Old and New Testaments with the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books: New Revised Standard Version. New York: American Bible Society, 1989. Print.…
(Hebrew: אִסִּיִים, Isiyim) were a Jewish religious group that flourished from the 2nd century BCE to the 1st century CE that some scholars claim seceded from the Zadokite priests.[1] Being much fewer in number than the Pharisees and the Sadducees (the other two major sects at the time) the Essenes lived in various cities but congregated in communal life dedicated to asceticism, voluntary poverty, daily baptisms, and abstinence from worldly pleasures, including marriage. Many separate but related religious groups of that era shared similar mystic, eschatological, messianic, and ascetic beliefs. These groups are collectively referred to by various scholars as the "Essenes." Josephus records that Essenes existed in large numbers, and thousands lived throughout Judæa.…
Bibliography: Fee, Gordon D, Paul’s Letter to Philippians, The New International Commentary On The New Testament, Grand Rapids, Mich, W.B. Eerdmens Pub. Co., 1995…
James, in his epistle, makes reference to the blessings that come with the kingdom of God in which the poor are the recipients (James 2:5). James exhortations are much like the gospel beatitudes. James also reiterates the command of the king to love your neighbor as yourself (James 2:8).…
A collective name for a large number of greatly-varying and pantheistic-idealistic sects, which flourished from some time before the Christian Era down to the fifth century, and which, while borrowing the phraseology and some of the tenets of the chief religions of the day, and especially of Christianity, held matter to be a deterioration of spirit, and the whole universe a depravation of the Deity, and taught the ultimate end of all being to be the overcoming of the grossness of matter and the return to the Parent-Spirit, which return they held to be inaugurated and facilitated by the appearance of some God-sent Saviour.…
8. How does the first unit of Ephesians (1:1–15) depict the unique role of each Person of the Trinity (185–186)?…
The first chapter was entitled “Make Your Choice”. The Sermon on the Mount – perhaps Jesus’ most famous sermon – addresses our attitudes. Theologians have called this series of teachings the Beatitudes.…