Doctrine and Covenants

The courageous Saints from the Restoration, to the Reorganization, to present day have participated in a journey that can be celebrated with a powerful sense of common identity. Mark Scherer refers to these eras in the Community of Christ journey: the Era of Restoration, the Era of Reorganization, and the Era of Worldwide Community . In seeking to understand the present direction/identity of the Community of Christ, it is important to examine the historical and social context from which each era…

For my final topic, I decided to utilize the doctrine of justification by faith in Christ. This doctrine is central to our Christian faith and shapes how we view our salvation in Christ. It is key that we have a good understanding of it because it can have an impact on how we view ourselves and how we view God. What is justification and how are we justified? Pastor R.C. Sproul speaks of this in a sermon on Martin Luther. He points out that our English word for justification comes from the Latin…

Supper as visible signs of the covenant of grace. Another Reformed distinctive present in these theologians was their denial of the bodily presence of Christ in the Lord's supper. Each of these theologians also understood salvation to be by grace alone, and affirmed a doctrine of particular election . Martin Luther and his successor Philipp Melanchthon were undoubtedly significant influences on these theologians, and to a larger extent later Reformed theologians. The doctrine of justification by…

etymology of the word angel is derived from the mixture of old English engel and old French angele, both words originated from Latin word angelus, from Greek angelo. The Hebrew word for angel is mala'ak. Angels are referred to as a messenger of the covenant, a medium, an interpreter and one that announces as they are used as God's messengers. The Old English word that was used as the word angel was aerendgast, meaning errand spirit. An angel is defined as a spiritual being believed to act as an…

shows their importance in early successes towards creating a Jewish state. The immigration is a factor in Zionist success as an increase in the Jewish proportion of the population would make it harder to ignore their claims for a state, further validating the Zionists’ side. Furthermore, the success in creating the state of Israel was due to the 1947 UN Partition Plan. After Britain’s failure to reconcile its conflicting obligations to both the Jews and the Arabs, the United Nation Special…

and an employment agreement, which contained a restrictive covenant. He eventually left VMS and began practicing within the area defined by the restrictive covenant (448). VMS then filed a complaint blaming Dr. Farber for violating the restrictive covenant. The trial court found that the restrictive covenant violated public policy or alternatively, that it was too broad. The court of appeals reversed, concluding that a modified covenant was reasonable. One of the issues in this case is regarding…

man has sinned, and the result of sin is death, spiritual separation from God (Rom. 6:23). However, God loves the world and gave His one and only Son, Jesus Christ, to die on the cross as a substitute for a penalty of all human sinners (Christian Doctrine). Through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, humans’ sins are forgiven. Therefore, salvation is given through Christ who carried out the atonement for all mankind. In the Old Testament, people were saved by…

III. Theology Proper Definition of God God is a Spirit (John 4:24), infinite (Job 11:7; 1 Kings 8:27), eternal (Ps. 90:2; 1 Tim. 1:17), and unchangeable (James 1:17; Mal. 3:6) in His being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness and truth. The Immanence of God The immanence of God connotes an indwelling of God within the world and its processes (Jer. 23:23-24; Acts 17:27-29; Heb. 1:3; Matt. 10:29). Every event is of supernatural causation in some sense. However, God is over the universe…

politics is what hardens Hamas as it allows them to win the hearts of the Palestinian people. Since Hamas governs by the doctrine of Islam and are helping to end Israeli occupation it comes as no surprise that the population highly approves of them despite their acts of violence and crimes. Hamas uses religion to push political messages. Just looking at Article 6 of their Covenant, explains exactly how they mix religion and politics. Furthermore, the preamble clearly identifies the political…

Union with Christ was integral in the soteriology of the Reformist , and especially that of Calvin. As Marcus St. Peter President.. President Johnson tone in One With Jesus the Messiah , “when Calvin wrote of being united to Christ, he meant that worshipper are personally joined to the living, incarnate, crucified, resurrected Jesus...this brotherhood with Christ, which Calvin described in strikingly graphic and intimate terms, constituted for him the very essence of salvation. To be saved by…