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should and shouldn’t be baptised, nowhere in the bible states who should be the one to perform a baptism. There a couple of places within the bible that imply some Christians performed baptisms but it doesn’t clearly state who the right people are to do so. Generally nowadays a priest performs a baptism and in some cases at church a Christian Youth leader, but we have been left to create our own rules and say that the only people fit to perform such a sacred and important ritual are…

The Eucharist has been a ceremony in the Christian church for many centuries; it has many purposes however one of the most important meanings is to show God’s love for his people through Jesus’…

Since the beginning of Lutheranism, there has been great strife and conflict between the Christian church (primarily the Lutherans and Catholics). This strife often gets in the way of the true goal of Christianity (to bring those who do not believe in the gospel message to Christ). The Catholics and the Lutherans are different denominations of the same religion of Christianity. Many people that are not members of either denomination can confuse the two. While both are similar in some ways they…

like Christ and less like the world. The procedural nature of sanctification is exemplified in the journey of Spenser’s Redcrosse Knight. Redcrosse, being representative of the everyday Christian, is not made perpetually or immediately holy just by fact of him being a Christian. Redcrosse, as do all Christians,…

Lukewarm Christian: God’s View and His Advice Lukewarm Christian is someone who loves the Lord with a partial heart, and gives the other part of the heart to worldliness. The love for sins and things of the world (invented by Satan) is called worldliness. First John Chapter 2 verse 15 says: “Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.” The word “lukewarm Christian” refers to someone with an unstable identity in the presence…

churches, Christian beliefs of Baptism and Eucharist are evident in their celebration of the Sacraments; primary acts of worships. Anglicanism still holds today traditional views on both these sacraments, which are considered “sure witnesses, and effectual signs of grace, and God’s good will toward us, by the which He doth work invisibly in us, and doth not only quicken, but also strengthen and confirm our Faith in Him”. Anglicans have maintained the Eucharist, continuing to display the…

Because Tolkien has his own interpretation and belief in Christianity, he starts a new chapter of fiction novel, and uses many unique ways to express his Christian view of life to bear on his fictional scholarships. First of all, most of his myths have many parallels and connections to biblical stories. In The Silmarillion, a fantasy fiction novel of Tolkien’s mythopoeic works, Tolkien depicts the entire history of his fictional world, and there is a Holy Creator, who is named Ilúvatar. At the…

nationalities . Russian Orthodoxy is very diverse anyone can join and be apart of their religion. The Russian Orthodox church believes the bible is the word of God,( which it is). They believe it teaches Jesus is the son of God and that he died on the cross to save our sins, and rose. Russian Orthodox services are liturgical and filled with symbolism . Mary which in the Bible who birth Jesus Christ in Bethlehem has a special place In Russian Orthodoxy as the mother of God. The Russian Orthodox…

that we can decide to believe in Jesus Christ on our own. VI. The Doctrine of Christ Jesus Christ is the one true God. Our Savior needed to be our one true God in order to make a sufficient atonement for our sins. Christ suffered and died on the cross as a ransom on our behalf to rescue us from Satan. This act could only be obtained by the one true God himself. Christ also had to be true man in order to be able to suffer and die for our sins. He also needed to show us how to live the life…

With growing Christian populations in Africa, South America and Asia, the Church has quickly found the demographics of the body of believers is shifting from a majority in the west to a majority in the global south. While Christianity primarily associated itself with European and North American culture for the majority of the past two millennia, Christians now find the faith manifesting itself in cultures outside the traditional paradigm. Missions work claims a large responsibility for this…