Bible study

enemies and loving our neighbor, and also the Scripture that commands us not to kill. Afterward, she said she does not know how she can show love to people who are unloving, and that Scripture was not helping her figure this out. Working with the Bible study to address this situation, I first asked them the ways that this has been done in our history. I explained about the early Christians who were pacifists and drew in followers with their radical love, even when they were being…

believed to be the elected father-in-law of Muhammad, Abu Bakr, and those elected rulers who followed him. Considered to be the “Orthodox Islam” by most scholars, it is not organized around any formal leadership. Therefore, any person with enough study and knowledge of Islam and its sacred texts is eligible to become an influential scholar. These scholars, as we will see, interpret the sacred texts and try to answer open-ended questions which the texts themselves fail to focus on, creating a…

the teaching that evolution is a contradiction to the word of God in the Bible, that one cannot believe in evolution in a scientific realm as well as God, and that evolution is the genesis of an atheistic philosophy with the intention to corrupt the mindset of young individuals. In order words it’s “an invention of the devil”. Any information I received over evolution from Sunday teachings and church sermons originated from bible ministering creationists and not from evolutionary scientists.…

Science is often proven by studies and theoretical factual evidence, but the same can be said for the Bible. The Bible does present realistic verification to support how certain events may have taken place. These events have been proven to correlate with historical text and depictions such as drawings and written record in assorted languages which have nothing to do with religion or Christianity. History has always been explained through testament, but will always require some form of…

Women in the Bible are respected, cherished, and honored. Within the American culture, however, women are most predominantly not shown dignified treatment. The undignified treatment shown to women is seen most clearly through the lens of popular media (i.e. magazines, television, social media, etc.). In America “too often, the media practices symbolic annihilation” (Stillman 52) where both the behavioral aspects and outward perception of Biblical womanhood are condemned by the media. Magazines…

Interdisciplinary Studies Dr. Packer Eric G. Shuping March 23, 2015 Brief Paper The Hebrew Bible shows us the creation of Heaven and Earth created by God. Human nature proves to us the Hebrew Bible does not allow human beings to act independently or having the freedom to do so without answering to the Creator of heaven and earth. God’s determination to test our free will shows our determination to obey God’s orders to do as we are told. Human Nature defined in the Hebrew Bible,…

Christianity, the bible is the most important book written. It is important to Christians because it is an eye witness account of the stories of Jesus. Without the bible, we would only have stories of the creation of time and Jesus, but through the bible, we can experience these stories almost as we were there. For Christians, this book shapes how they live daily. It is like a moral code set by God that Christians are required to follow so that they may be granted access to heaven. Without the…

this semester, I have learned numerous things about God and the Bible as a whole. Though lectures and class discussions, I have learned things that have benefitted me far outside the realms of the class. This semester, Dr. Jones has really challenged us to see how what we are learning in class applies to real life, not merely within the walls of the classroom, and that is something I have taken away. I have come to understand that the Bible is indeed living and breathing, and it makes a huge…

particular personality trait of yours, one from which you would like to fast and consider writing in your journal about it. Express your struggles as a dialogue between you and God. Study is the mind taking on an order conforming to the order of whatever we concentrate upon. The discipline of study…

Contextualization for the Global South is a Perspective of Authority of the Bible and and to a Degree of Emphasis on Old Testament and New Testament. There is a fascinating correspondence between the social issues and the view on biblical authority of the global South churches and those of the African-American churches. As Jenkins notes, "The socially liberating effects of evangelical religion should come as no surprise to anyone who has traced the enormous influence of biblically based religion…