Christian hedonism

Have you ever experienced sufferings even though you followed God’s plan for you? Have you ever experienced the darkest moment of your life and God was not there with you? In the gospel, Jesus was the one who ordered the disciples to go on without him. He dismissed them and when they are far off the land, they were being tossed by the waves because the wind was against the boat they were in. If you look closer, even though it was Jesus’ plan, they are all alone and everything was against them.…

I first began working at my local church garden because I was interested in the gardening itself. The man in charge of it, Mike Knutson, made an announcement at church one Sunday. He said that they were in desperate need of volunteers. I thought it sounded like fun, and I’ve always wanted to learn how to grow my own garden. This seemed like a great learning opportunity, and I wanted to help them out. I thought I’d go for a couple of weeks; however, I’d never thought that I would decide to…

The word ‘Moksha’ is derived from ‘moksh’ which can mean emancipation or liberation etc. Sometimes it might also refer to salvation but salvation may not do justice to the word since it has a kind of Christian connotation to it rather than a Hinduism one. But it is frequently used to translate the word moksh. So instead of it meaning only freedom from sin, it includes freedom from the human life itself. In soteriological terms, moksha means freedom from samsara, the cycle of birth and death.…

Robert L. Wilken’s The Spirit of Christian Thought. Are there any things that strike you? What does it say about the relation between faith and our perception of reality? ‘Spirit of Early Christian Thought’ by Robert L. Wilken gives the reader of brief insight into the thoughts of early Christian’s scholars, theologians and the so called new thinker’s. This detailed academic research essay will also give many examples of famous religious figures within the early Christian community, figures…

Awakening is when the Baptist took off it became the largest Christian community in most of the southern states.…

also hypothesizes that rigor supported the emerging structure and the coherence of Protestant systematic theology. Muller argues, for instance, that any proper understanding of the Reformation must be made within the framework of a synthesis of Christian theology and Aristotle's…

A creed is an outline of Christian religious belief and faith. The use of creed came within the first few hundred years after the death of Christ. The Apostle’s Creed is the most referred creed. The Apostle’s Creed or the Christian Creed is the oldest, most significant and most widely known Christian statement of faith. The Apostle’s creed is a summary of the teachings of the Apostle’s. It gives an outline of life, death and resurrection of Jesus. The creed in a way gives a sense of hope and…

Each person in the world has some kind of religious values or beliefs. Some people believe that we honor god by giving respect and peace to one another. Others believe that after they lost a loved one, God was their at their side to help them, and that after war tore through their country, they should reevaluate their ideas about religion. When I was listening to the 17 “This I believe…” essays online, 3 stood out to me the most. They all touched me in a way, but also made me think a lot. Why…

never did become a professing Christian. which tells us she probably did not write this on a spiritual basis. Even though the members of the Maycomb Community attend church on Sundays and often times, put on a spiritual mask, their actions and beliefs on social, life are far from Christian morals. Most of Maycomb members are violently judgmental, which is definitely not an acceptable, Christian character quality. In fact, it speaks very badly of Christians.…

Living in today’s society, people know that this is a falling world. At one point of time at a certain young age, everything was easy and so innocent. As the years progress and age increases, things get harder and people have much more experience throughout life. These two kinds of perspectives our shown in William Blake’s poems, Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience. In Songs of Innocence, the readers sees poems lived by a child and how innocent life is as a child. On the contrary in Songs…