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It was a beautiful church. Stacked with rows of pews. The old woodworking of each bench with red velvet covering each row. The old worn look of many followers sitting and kneeling. The stained worn wood in front where their hands laid to pray. Windows fill with stained glass to allow the beam of light from the sun to shine through. I could see the speckled particles of dust shining like the light at the end of a tunnel. In front of me was a platform with a podium built of beautiful wood. The…

Ezra is a scribe and a priest, and when he arrived in Judea, he found the Temple rebuilt but the people's spirit lives in ruin. The Israelites had intermarried with the people from surrounding nations and had begun to follow their Gods instead of remaining faithful to the Lord. In his mind, Ezra considered intermarriage to be a sin, he sincerely expressed shame on it. Ezra feared the consequences that being married to a pagan would incline his people (the chosen people of God, the Holy seed)…

Strengths and weaknesses A. Strengths She writes some significant points in Greek language using Greek letters, which is very helpful for somebody who needs to go back into manuscripts. I recognize this as a strong strength in the book. Archer is smart enough to find her theme ‘worship’ from anywhere. She analyzes the epilogue. The Apocalypse comes to a close with a brief benediction; “the grace of the Lord Jesus be with you all” (Rev. 22:21 NIV). Archer says “the benediction serves as a…

Throughout the Bible, God is making new covenants with his people. They all have the same general idea of God caring for his people. He chooses different prophets and physical signs to depict the covenants to his people, but each covenant is just a new way that God shows his love for his people and his wanting us to love him back. But he is not the only being using prophets to spread the message of unconditional love. In the article, New Frontiers of Guadalupan Studies, Colleen Cross noticed…

Harold Kushner composed this book as a response to a calamity that happened to someone that was very close to him, his son Aaron. Aaron had premature aging, also called progeria, which eventually resulted in his death. This event really aggravated Kushner’s religious belief. Kushner is also a rabbi, which made this situation just that much more difficult for him. With this book, Kushner tells us the story on how he kept his faith with God throughout this horrible time in his life. Kushner…

In Acts chapter 5, Ananias and Sapphira, a married couple, sold a piece of land while keeping part of the profit to themselves. Together, they brought the rest of the money to the disciples to make an offering of it claiming to have given the full amount. Peter questioned Ananias and he immediately fell dead after lying to the apostles. With no knowledge of what happened to Ananias, Sapphira came in shortly after and was questioned in a similar fashion and she immediately dropped dead as well.…

Hammett and Duesing both do a good describing their perspectives on the marks of a true church. Hammett lists that the true marks of a church are oneness, holiness, catholicity and apostolicity. This sounds like the Acts 2:42 church which we see the emerges of the local church. “Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to their number that day.”(oneness, holiness, apostolicity) Acts‬ ‭2:41‬ ‭NIV‬‬ “They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and…

This essay will look at the Didache, it will start by looking at what the Didache is. Then looking at each part separately and discussing the contents, it will summarise each section of the Didache before analysing the possible use. It will then discuss how and why this is important for contemporary church historians. The Didache is quite a short work which is written in a very straightforward, practical way. It was thought to be lost until it was rediscovered in 1873 by Archbishop Bryennios, in…

Constantine died, the church leaders who were banished tried to come back and reclaim their churches. They tried to get rid of the Nicene Creed also, and that caused it became an open dispute again. An Arian Emperor sent the persecution of non-Arians Christians. In the east, there was the success of other teachings that supported the Nicene Creed like those of Basil the Great, Gregory of Nyssa, and Gregory of…

Zacchaeus was a deceptive man whose interest drove him to Jesus Christ and salvation. Humorously, his name signifies "unadulterated" or "honest" in Hebrew. As a central duty gatherer for the region of Jericho, Zacchaeus was a worker of the Roman Empire. Under the Roman framework, men offer on those positions, swearing to raise a particular measure of cash. Anything they raised over that sum was their benefit. Luke says Zacchaeus was a wealthy man, so he more likely than not coerced an…