Creation and Redemption of Mankind

It is the message that gives hope to mankind. It takes the broken, hopeless, sinner, and allows him or her to approach the Holy God. As defined by pastors Chandler, Patterson, and Geiger, “In its simplest form, the Gospel is God’s reconciling work in Christ-that through the life, death, and resurrection of Christ, God is making all things new both personally for those who repent and believe and cosmically as He redeems culture and creation from its subjection to futility” (Chandler, 7)…

To know and understand through the revelation of the Spirit of God, the eternal oneness of Jesus the "Son", Jesus the "Father", and Jesus the "Holy Spirit". That He was and is before all things and that by him "all things consist". That Jesus is the fullness of the Godhead bodily and without controversy great is that mystery of Godliness. Even though man in his finite thinking gradually gravitated away from the leading of the Holy Spirit through the centuries, God has still through Jesus Christ…

the Bible is God’s revelation of himself and His will. It is not difficult to discover because it emerges at numerous places in the scriptures themselves. The center of the message is Jesus Christ and what God has done, is doing, and will do for mankind through Jesus Christ. Paul’s sermon in Acts 13:16-43 is a good summary of the basic…

discarded. The Great Gatsby’s setting revolves around careless characters seeking escape and needing redemption. By examining the redemptive figure Jay Gatsby and his savior-like relationship to Daisy Buchanan and Nick Carraway, one can distinguish the various techniques used by Fitzgerald to portray and comment upon the nature of humanity. Jay Gatsby represents the ultimate picture of redemption through his mythic life story. Born into a humble farming family, Gatsby embodies the ‘American…

psychoanalysis as patients with unexplained neurological systems. He considers humans as “animals with inborn biological drives”. According to Genesis 1 & 2, describe the creation of our world as it relates to God’s purpose of man. Man was created by God to rule over His creation” Sigmund Freud Psychoanalytic theory stated that mankind behavior is brought on, largely, by their unconscious and the “drives” we are born with. Freud talks about libido, which he later expanded to life, and…

3:17, Luke 19:10). Jesus came to Earth to save all of mankind and die on the cross for all of our sins, “For the Son of Man came to seek and to save what was lost” (Luke 19:10). Had Jesus not come to Earth to save man, there would be hope for mankind, nor would there be eternal life with God, “I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full” (John 10:10). He shed his blood on the cross so everyone could obtain eternal redemption (Hebrew…

A beautiful story of love and redemption scored through the passion of a savior, Christianity persists to succeed in influencing lives for the better. One’s rise to Christianity commences with one sensing that life is filled with emptiness, and what does exist, tends to be broken. Hence, one desires a better world characterized by happiness and joy rather than pain and suffering. One looks to worldly things to appease this desire for good, yet indulging in the world only brings deeper suffering.…

In literature, we can find different thoughts that are brought to our attention and may touch our hearts as we read it. When I read literature, I find a personal connection within it and it makes me want to read more. An Old English Poem, “The Dream of the Rood” by an unknown author, translated by E.T Donaldson is a unique poem where the narrator tells his vision from a dream he received on the crucifixion of Christ and the view from the cross perspective. The beauty of this poem goes beyond…

does not cause evil. Nash explains, “The evils are brought about by persons acting contrary to God’s will, having chosen to act as they do…But God cannot create genuinely free human beings and then not permit them to bring about moral evils…As the creation of persons with genuine choices is good thing, then the existence of moral evil is both logically and…

Chapter 1 of the Father, Son, & Holy Spirt pulls the reader into a discussion about why understanding the Trinity is important in the life of Christian believer. Ware expounds on the point that Gods wisdom chose reveal himself as Triune. Causing mankind to lean towards gaining wisdom about Him by means of faith alone. Chapter 2 focuses on how we, believers of today, should leverage history and experiences gained by previous theologians…