Baptism

One holiday that is very important to the Costa Rican people is the celebration of the harvest of their own coffee crop. When the crop has been harvest they like to celebrate they dress with brilliant colors and performed traditional dances. . Many villages and towns celebrate with a special custom on Christmas Day with special bullfight in which no bull is killed or even hunt. (Grigni, J., 1997). Marriage is very traditional way to start a family few Costa Ricans consider only Catholic Church…

Chasteen wrote that n 1493 Pope Alexander VI, while granting Spain the right to colonize the New World, mandated that the indigenous people be converted to Catholicism and didn’t want anyone to be converted into slaves. However, he added a catch that anyone who didn’t want to be converted into Catholicism they would be converted into slaves. More positively, in 1500, Queen Isabella of Spain then said that all Indian would be converted into slave because they were to different from white people…

From the early 1600’s to early 1800’s, Blacks and Women have had expectations, social and political, placed on their lives that have shaped them throughout history. Starting in the 1600’s, colonies such as Virginia and Maryland began to place laws and create customs that distinguished the Blacks from the whites. These laws would ban interracial marriages, sexual relations, deprive them of property, and prohibit them from bearing arms or traveling without permission. Laws such as these came…

toward the direction of the city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia. On the other hand, Christianity was founded approximately around 30 AD in the city of Palestine Israel. Their major branches are Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant. Christianity practice baptism and…

occurred after the centuries of progressive separation in which the two traditions developed their own distinctive forms. When it came to their differences, they ranged from minor to more contrasting characteristics. The minor differences included baptism. As an example, the West performed by the use of sprinkling of water, while the East performed theirs with full immersion into the water. As another example, the West had urged their priests to be celibate,…

Theologians John Calvin (1509-1564) John Calvin was born July 10, 1509, at Noyon, France, an ancient cathedral city about seventy miles Northeast of Paris. Calvin was a wanted man so with his brother and sister and two friends, ran off of Strasbourg. After he converted to the ‘’evangelical’’ faith during the time of his published education of the Institutes of the Christian Religion, he also was a prominent French theologian during the Protestant Reformation. As a student he studied the liberal…

state, Christian religious beliefs and practices dominate Untied States culture. Christian (Baptism) is one of the main religions or culture that is practiced in the United States of America. There are Churches on every other block in my community. Baptism is an important ritual in the life of a “Christian”. A person is admitted to the church congregation as a member only through the ritual of baptism and that person is committed to God’s way. Christianity is often treated as if it is…

The book of Hebrews focuses on Christ’s superiority and exhorts Christians to be mature and stay strong in their faith. Although scholars have not come to an agreement as to who the author of Hebrews is, most do agree upon who the general audience is. The audience that this passage was directed towards was a “community” that had failed to mature in their faith and understanding of Christ. Hebrews 5:11-6:12 serves as one of several warning sections in the book where the author confronts his…

ou don’t thats disrespecting god and also disrespecting everything about the Catholic church. The reason the human body is of such importance is that it is the eternal temple of God, a part of the great incarnation of God through the Lord Jesus Christ. The goal of our salvation is to have our body resurrected into eternal life and filled with the Presence of the Father and the Son through the Holy Spirit. God is a Spirit. God chose to express Himself, to reveal Himself, in a physical form. The…

In every part of history, societies have developed remarkable technological innovations. During the Age of exploration, the magnetic compass and the printing press were created. Both these important technological innovations have had both positives and negatives effects on a society or on humanity. Johann Gutenberg invented the printing press, which was very successful. That being said, the magnetic compass had great success also. Johann Gutenberg’s sensational invention had an immense impact…