Christian soteriology

Book Analysis Three: The Holiness of God Young Hoon (John) Kim The first chapter of the book emphasizes God as the Creator. “How we understand the person and character of God the Father affects every aspect of our lives” (13). In other words, if people do not accept God as the Creator, it will affect whole Christianity and people’s belief. Along with the acceptance of God as a Creator, the author, also, emphasizes the understanding of the holiness of In the second chapter of the book, the…

Manuscript, Foundations of the Christian Faith by P.L. Ditshego THIS IS ONE OF THE PATTERNS THAT GOD USES TO UNLOCK THE REVELATION OF HIS WORD! Notice that (according to this parable), growth in the natural begins at the seed stage, then it progresses to the blade stage which speaks of a pointed leaf. The blade stage develops into a stalk called the ear until a final stage is reached when the stalk is fully ripe with grain. Thus, in this parable, Jesus was teaching His disciples that the…

An individual’s baptism is an extremely important milestone in the Christian faith. Not only is it the first sacrament to receive, but it is the official welcoming into the church. Most members of the Christian faith can agree that baptism is a crucial sacrament for initiation. However, there has been controversy on the appropriate age of baptism. Infant baptism has been in question since the beginning of the Reformed Tradition . Some members argue that baptism should take place as an infant…

But these are not the right questions. These questions out-rightly portray a sinful and still reprobate heart. The question shouldn't be how far can I go and get away with it; the question is how can I be sanctified, separated from sin and remain holy unto God? How can I conduct my physical relationships so that I will remain holy, which means being separated from sin? And as you begin to tinker with the conscious emotions that God has designed in your spirit man, you begin to allow your mind…

Lord of the church commands. They follow not in consonant and obedience with God’s agenda but set and follow personal agenda to suit their purpose. Typical passages that talks on this includes: Not everyone who say to me ‘Lord, Lord; will enter the kingdom of heaven but only he who does the will of my father who is in heaven (Matthew 7:21), if anyone dose not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers: such branches are picked up’ throw into the fire and burned (John 15:6)…

Martyrdom is a term that refers to the voluntary death of a person often for religious purposes or as the result of persecution. Martyrs often sacrificed their own lives for a particular cause rather than, in the case of Christians, betray their beliefs. In the Christian tradition, after their deaths many martyrs became saints. Saints are religious people who are recognized as being exceptionally holy by the Church. Yet saints and martyrs served other purposes other than just to honour the holy…

of worship and then, just so they didn’t come up short, they built one for the “unknown god.” (Acts 17:23) For some reason, Although God warned against such, humanity seems determined to have a god they can physically see and touch. Nonetheless, Christians must learn to walk by faith; trusting in His Word. “Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen” (Heb. 11:1). Had God revealed the exact location of Moses grave, humanity would have worn that mountain…

In his essay, taken from the book Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger, Ronald Sider argues that God’s will for the economic relationships of man is to have justice for the poor. Supporting his argument with three different examples from the Old Testament and multiple from the New Testament, Sider shows how the implementation of processes to promote economic justice evolved in the Bible, while at the same time showing how the spirit of God’s will, or the law, never changed. Sider also views the…

three years after To the Christian Nobility, Luther takes the key ideas from the earlier piece and elaborates upon them, providing the foundational writing on the relationship between the temporal and the spiritual realms, church and state. As stated previously, Luther’s writing on this topic should not be taken out of context, but seen in light of his greater understanding of the way God exercises authority in the world and in the lives of individual Christians. After Christian Nobility, Luther…

The purpose of Dawn, the prologue to Searching for Sunday, by Rachel Held Evans, is to introduce key elements that will be proceeded throughout the book, as well as establish Evans opinion on the her view and the view shared by millennials regarding the institutionalized Church and how it must change to recapture the attention of herself and the rest of the millennial population. The audience of Evans work is primarily directed toward millennials who wish to strengthen their faith, but also can…