Antioch

His first missionary journey was to Cyprus, Antioch, Iconium, Lystra, and Derbe. It was during this journey that Paul was stoned, but not killed while in Lystra. It was ironic that he went through the same punishment that he had sanctioned for Stephen and for the very same cause. Around 50 A.D…

Peter, referred to as Cephas in the text, came to Paul in Antioch and was of the stance that a Jewish law such as circumcision was required for all Christians no matter their previous faith. With Peter being another apostle, he is an established source for God’s Gospel and his word is valued highly due to his status…

The life of Cleopatra was a unique one at best, commonly known for her beauty and lesser known for her strong leadership skills. One could argue that she was a strong female role model, but her actions contradict those arguments as she was quite the temptress when it came to powerful men. Cleopatra’s story starts when father Ptolemy XII Auletes who was given power over Egypt upon Alexander the Greats death. Oddly enough Cleopatra’s family wasn’t of Egyptian descent, they were of the Macedonian…

The Effects of the Third Ecumenical Council on the Representation of Marian Doctrine in the Fifth-Century Church According to Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia (2014), an ecumenical council was “assembly convened to deliberate and decide on ecclesiastical doctrine and on other matters affecting the interests of the Christian church.” In the Early church, ecumenical councils were called to discuss and expound upon the doctrine being formed within the church. They centered around heresy and…

Short-Term Financial Goals Preparing the personal financial plan, personal financial goals, and balance sheet and income statements felt like a daunting task. Primarily because finances were something that I always thought about, but I did not want to know the “real” truth regarding my financial health. The second principle of personal finance, “Nothing Happens Without a Plan” fits well in my situation because I persistently avoided viewing the entire picture when it came to our family’s…

Project Overview Our project aims at identifying an organization, understanding its current business processes and help it with innovative, reasonable and effective solutions. We further concentrated on identifying the activities where information systems can be applied and can lead to innovation. To understand practical issues deeper, we searched for an organization which could benefit from innovative IT solutions. We chose an organization which we can visit, connect and communicate with easily…

Paul first came in contact with Corinth in Acts 18.1-17 after passing through Athens. Paul first wrote to Corinth, although this letter is not documented, in a sense of warning them of things not to fall into and bad character to avoid. In having trouble keeping Christ like standards Paul writes another letter in response, 1 Corinthians. The Church of Corinth was mostly converts of the surrounding area and who were also most likely heavily in the life of the usual Corinth. The Church itself…

I have always loved and appreciated art, but I never considered myself being an artist or even capable of being an artist. I am a writer, photographer, and videographer, and while I experience those mediums as expressive and personal, I have made excuses as to why my products are not art: “even creative writing is formulaic and academic, therefore it is not art; my photography relies more on technical skill and internal math, therefore it is not art; my videography captures a subject but is not…

To place Christ as part of the divine with a singular God was to deny the emperor his power and influence. Facing these tidal headwinds coming from the emperor, the promotion of Christology was viewed as useful propaganda by early Christians. It became a useful guide to explain many of the mysteries surrounding the human nature of Jesus, his good deeds, and his subsequent resurrection into Heaven. While trying to convince an audience couched in Greek philosophy, practitioners of Christology…

Humanity has long sought safety inside groups with a similar identity. The existence of tribes or clans based on family throughout the history of the world serves a simple benchmark of what an oft-sought community looks like: It looks like me. One of the many segments of history where we see this desire for like-identified communities is in the development and discourse that frames up early structures of “orthodoxy” and “heresy” in the second through fourth centuries. Driven by the idea that…