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Elijah was known for being a prophet. “His example of trusting in God’s word is the best one we can find in the Old Testament prophets.” Elijah confronted Ahab two times, once when devaluing God granting inheritance of the land and the second is the murder of Naboth. Elijah confronted Baal and his rule, because people believed that Baal could control the rains. “ Yet the rains were a gift of Yahweh, not Baal; Yahweh decided when it would rain. Baal’s followers thought him dead when drought…

Indulgences were grants given by the pope to forgive sins. They could forgive sins you have comminted or sins of your living or dead realtives. People back then really believed it; they thought they could but their way into salvation. As Luther puts it, Christians should be exhorted to be diligent in following Christ, their Head, through penalties, death and hell./And thus be confident of entering into heaven through many tribulations rather than through the false security of peace. He cites…

Steinbeck reminds us that while life can force people to abandon religion even in dire straits, people will cling to their core values. Throughout the novel, characters learn that the loss of religion does not equate to the loss of spirituality. The retention of such spirituality brings forth ideas of self, which helps us maintain our values. Jim Casy, a very spiritual preacher, makes his opinion on the matter clear by exclaiming that "'there ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just…

“Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.” -Vince Lombardi. The Chrysalids by John Wyndham introduces two societies, Waknuk and Sealand. Waknuk is an intolerant society in a developmental hiatus, and Sealand is a technologically and socially sophisticated community. Waknuk is ignorant of individual’s abilities, causing division among it’s people. However, Sealand embraces these extraordinary traits and…

Martin Luther King, Jr gave a heart touching speech on August 28, 1963, “I Have a Dream.” King’s motivation of the speech was to let the world know that we are all human and that the prison of segregation will be ripped away. Soon everyone will be able to look at one another and think, “They’re human, I am human, and we are all human.” King uses ethos, logos, and pathos to give feeling, and logic to the minds of the world. To begin, King uses logos as a way to bring across the idea that…

Scriputura, Sola Fide, and Sola Gratia. Learning to know God is a very important aspect of the Christian faith and can be accomplished through Sola Scriptura, or by way of scripture alone. As the Word of God, the Bible acts as a medium that connects its reader directly to Him. For the individual, scripture teaches us everything that is necessary for our salvation from sin and is the standard by which all Christian behavior must be measured. For the church, scripture acts as an authority,…

As a recently confirmed Catholic, I feel closer to God than ever. However, Confirmation wasn't what I thought it would be. I had known what was going to happen: we would be presented to the bishop, listen to the homily, renew our baptismal promises, the bishop would lay his hands upon us, and we would be anointed with Chrism. However, I couldn't have predicted the feeling of the Chrism on my forehead or the inexplicable joy that I felt afterwards. I couldn't have possibly known the understanding…

Since Jesus has two natures, and those natures are within the person of Christ. Then, what is person? Based on his book, Berkhof (1949), person is in what exists in and for itself, the owner, possessor, and master of the nature, a completion of existence, sustaining, and determining the existence of a nature. The person is also the subject who lives, wills, and acts though nature with all its abundant context, by which nature becomes self-existent and is not an accident of another entity. The…

that it is in the Bible. People that are informed about this and are right in God’s eye are the dominant group against people who are LGBT or believe that this is okay. The short cartoon in the middle of the film addresses many misconceptions that Christians may have regarding LGBT Americans. Looking from a scientific perspective, genes do play a role in determining sexuality based off popular studies. When we have information and truths that involve real “science”, it is harder to argue.…

The prophets in the Old Testament were people who profoundly understood the relationship between God and His people through the Covenant. They were touched with the Holy Spirit (Num 11:29, Num 27:18) so that they could provide counseling and guidance to God’s people in the Old Testament, until the pouring out of the Holy Spirit after the cross (Joel 2:28) when each of us is a prophet. In other words, each of us has within us, the ability to understand what is expected of us, and how to “get…