Ascension of Jesus

the love, power and grace of the One who saved me, Jesus Christ. My salvation is fully reliant on Jesus and nothing I have done. I was raised by two Christian parents, who deeply love the Lord. This was truly a blessing in my life, as I was exposed to the Bible and church at such a young age. At the age of five, I came to a simple knowledge of who God was. I knew I was a sinner and that because of my sins, I deserved hell, but by God’s grace and Jesus’ death on the cross, I had the opportunity…

What God and Jesus mean to me. Christianity has many questions that can only be answered with a true relationship with God, Jesus and yourself. Knowing God as well as Jesus will help you understand how and why you feel the way you do. Having a good relationship with you self allows you to be open to having a relationship with Jesus and understanding why God made you the way you are. Finding your true self will open up new roads that you never knew existed. The baby steps we take in faith…

Unafraid tells the story of Mary, the mother of Jesus, and Rivers tries her best to describe events from Mary’s point of view. Mary was a virgin when pregnant with Jesus, and the book describes her thoughts, doubts, and how she trusted God from the beginning. It was amazing how reading how Mary was an ordinary woman striving to please God in the same way that…

Jesus Christ is God. As most of modern society knows, this statement is fundamental to the teachings of Christianity. Christians believe that the many prophecies of the Old Testament, such as, “Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel,” are all fulfilled with the coming of Jesus, giving them evidence that Jesus is God (Isaiah 7:14). For Muslims though, putting Jesus on equal standing with God is considered…

According to St. Matthew, illustrates the life of Jesus Christ. The Gospel of Matthew is considered as one of the important gospels in the bible because it “…contains an extensive account of Jesus’ teachings…”, which helps individuals understand the Christian religion even more precise (“New Testament of the Bible”). Passolini not only was able to capture a visual chronicle of the gospel but also engages his audiences to feel connected to our Lord Jesus Christ. This film can be shown to anyone…

In other words, God’s being in eternity (the immanent Trinity) is construed differently from God’s being in time (the economic Trinity), revealed through the life and work of Jesus Christ. Consequentially, the understanding of God’s being in substance undermines the ontological integrity of…

Augustine has come to realize that the life he was living prior to converting to Christianity was a lesson that led him to the right path. He mentions that his conversion to Manicheanism as well has reading the writings from the Platonist lead him to Jesus Christ. If it were not for him practicing and studying either, he would have never come to known Christ and for that he is ever grateful. He states “I talked away as if I knew a great deal; but if I had not sought the way to you in Christ our…

wrong. Through symbolized versions of God and Gary’s different emotions shown through parallel episodes, Gary Soto exhibits that sin leads to guilt and not happiness in his short story, “The Pie.” In “The Pie,” Soto symbolically represented God and Jesus to maintain the theme that sin leads to guilt. After young Gary stole a pie, he was…

Challenges The most significant challenge to living a life of love rooted in the Christian narration of reality is the dominant competing narration of reality in American culture, modernity. The ultimate narrative of modernity consists of two main subplots: consumerism and American nationalism. Each of these subplots presents significant challenges and obstacles to living a life of rightly-ordered love. Consumerism presents myriad problems in regard to developing a rightly-ordered love.…

This paper will examine William Lane Craig’s and John Hick’s assertion that the existence of suffering and the concept of a benevolent and omnipotent God are not mutually exclusive, but consistent phenomena. Christian theologians — in their attempt to constitute and defend arguments for the existence of a deity — assert that God, because of his depiction in Biblical literature, has unique characteristics and abilities. These characteristics include benevolence — “the quality of being…