Ascension of Jesus

read that it is a revelation of Jesus Christ. This signals one of two ideas. It could be taken as a revelation from Jesus Christ or as a revelation about Jesus Christ. So which is it? I believe it is both. In the book of Revelation, Jesus is portrayed as the Revealer. Revelation 1:1 tells us that God the Father gave this book to Jesus, who in turn gave it to an angel who gave it to John. Later in chapters 2 and 3, the messages given to the seven churches are by Jesus Christ, who reveals Himself…

punished, instead of the Hebrew tradition of the coming of a Messiah creating the Kingdom of God on earth. One of the disciples, Paul, was initially a devout Jew, who punished Christians as heretical. This changed when Paul had a dream that showed him Jesus was the Son of God. This dream caused Paul to become somewhat of the manager and public relations director for Christianity, allowing the growth of the faith. UCLA Professor Eugen Weber in the video noted that the Roman Empire was…

The drama of the recent presidential election left Americans asking the question, “What just happened here?” Whether a person’s favorite candidate won or lost is irrelevant to this discussion. What is important is the way in which people acted and reacted as tweets, posts, and advertisements went viral, and frankly, much of it was not pretty, or kind, or remotely Christ-like. How does a person, or more specifically a Christian, respond to all the negative campaigning full of hurtful words,…

Review of Philip Yancey’s The Jesus I Never Knew In The Jesus I Never Knew, Philip Yancey’s unpretentious and unbiased examination of Jesus’ earthly walk, it is almost as if Mr. Yancey is interviewing Jesus himself. He candidly shares his personal doubts, fears and preconceptions from his own American twentieth century fundamental Christian upbringing, but attempts to set all that aside and look at the historical evidence available from several perspectives. With his unique journalistic…

Jesus Christ – A Man Like No Other Jesus of Nazareth is one of the most well-known figures of history. He lived more than two thousand years ago and yet he has more than a billion followers world-wide (Web 2018). The details surrounding his birth, life, death and resurrection are unique and many details are foretold in Old Testament, the Christian sacred scriptures. The claims that Jesus made about himself infuriated the religious establishment of his day and they had him crucified. Every…

The theme/text that I found enriching and challenging is Iconoclasm. Before this class, I had only heard a little-bit about icons, and I was ignorant and ambivalent about the controversy. I discovered through this class that icons are central to Eastern Christian theology and identity. For Eastern Christians, icons are used in religious contexts and also venerated by touching, kissing, bowing in front of them, and lighting candles—these Christians are iconophiles (icon lovers). Icons were…

the Gospel of John and the Gospel of Thomas that there is the opinion that the Gospel of Thomas is a second century work. There are definitively a few similarities to the Pauline theology. In the Pauline theology Jesus died for our sins but not in the Gospel of Thomas. A similarity that there is between the Gospel of Thomas and Paul is that they both care for the hungry.4 The genre of the Gospel of Thomas is hard to place. …

destroying God 's work, resulted in God incarnating himself, to human form, to fix the mess that the devil had created. In the terms of the devil, Gregory of Nyssa also believed that Satan could have no way of knowing about Jesus, and that God was able to trick Satan into thinking that Jesus was just fully man, and not divine₁₃. He to also believed that Satan would one day be restored because it is said that all will be…

The Horizontal Dimensions of the Church is the side to side relationship and how we are connected to one another as fellow Christians and according to Mueller, “unless we belong to him and believe in him, we are not part of the church.” (p. 233) we might be Christians, however without the horizontal we will not be the church or be able to carry out the tasks placed before us by God. The Vertical Dimensions of the Church is the up and down relationship between the Church and God and according to…

charisma is the study of the gifts that God gives to Christians in order to do His work on earth (Thompson 2001, pp 1135). The Holy Spirit is the actual giver of these gifts at the time a person makes a conscious decision to become saved and edify God. Jesus sent the Holy Spirit at the time of Pentecost with the sign gifts in order to confirm the works of the Apostles [(Sons 1973) (1Cor. 2:17)]. Also this was a way prove to the Jews that God and Christ were real, as well to lift up and edify…