Doctrine and Covenants

positive obligation to ensure that rights are discharged from covenants fully and all the individuals in the society are equally protected. On the other hand IHL ensures that states protect people during conflicts, prisoners are equally protected and given access to basics, women are not raped or harassed etc. Its state’s positive obligation to make efforts to protect state’s own people from enemy attacks and to take precautionary measures in order to keep civilian areas away from military…

Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe by Mark Driscoll and Gerry Breshears Chapter Summaries Chapter One: Trinity: God Is Humans seek unconditional love for ourselves and for others as well as to live in a perfect world. We are designed by God to need him and his perfect love. We are made to worship and love Him. God is one person, but He has three separate identities: not three separate beings. The Father, Son and the Holy Spirit are all one who is known as God. Jesus is also God, but we…

forbid remarriage considering it was understood in Jewish society that remarriage almost always followed divorce or death. When one examines remarriage according to the word of God, a Christian is permitted to remarry once they repent for breaking the covenant of marriage with their partner. But what about pastoral consideration and the support of the…

of salvation by works. Hutchinson wholeheartedly believed sinners were not redeemed through good works or outward appearances, but by God’s redeeming grace which completed an inward work in a sinner’s life. This theology contradicted the Puritan’s covenant of works, which stressed the importance of outward deeds and works that earned salvation. A trivial difference of opinion in today’s terms but the grounds for damnation in the days of the Antinomian Controversy. However, the New Testament…

A member of a group of Protestants that arose in the 16th Century within the Church of England, demanding the simplification of doctrine and worship, and greater strictness in religious discipline: during part of the 17th Century the Puritans became a powerful political party. Puritans were the names given to members of a church. The puritan colonists believed that the Church of England, also known as The Anglican Church, should make more reforms to remove all the traces and trappings of the…

antecedent factors external of themselves. Hobbes concludes that man has liberty, but is not legitimately free in the sense of being capable of autonomous self-determination. In this sense, his conception of reality is one of volitional determinism; a doctrine…

Theologians John Calvin (1509-1564) John Calvin was born July 10, 1509, at Noyon, France, an ancient cathedral city about seventy miles Northeast of Paris. Calvin was a wanted man so with his brother and sister and two friends, ran off of Strasbourg. After he converted to the ‘’evangelical’’ faith during the time of his published education of the Institutes of the Christian Religion, he also was a prominent French theologian during the Protestant Reformation. As a student he studied the liberal…

also discuss how the Roman bureaucracy reacted to Christianity, including which Emperors persecuted Christians, and which did not. The doctrine of Christianity had a huge impact on the Roman Empire. The religion of Christianity spread throughout the Roman Empire. The development of Christianity is considered to be fascinating by many historians. The Christian doctrine was largely accepted because it was for everyone, including women and the poor (Patton, lecture). The Christian church began…

The Doctrine of Atonement is perhaps one of the most fundamental beliefs of Christianity. There are many conflicting and similar views held by great theological thinkers of the atonement. In this paper we will discuss the views held by Wesleyan-Armenian’s, Calvinists, and several liberal on the doctrine of atonement. There are many complex ideas and doctrines that also tie into the doctrine of atonement that also need to be explained in depth such as the wrath of God, forgiveness of sins, and…

they returned to Jerusalem, they began to rebuild the temple just as they began to rebuild their faith in God. During this time they restructured and solidified their worldview. From this point forward, they worshipped God alone and reestablished covenant of the Law, festivals such as the Passover, and traditions found in the Book of Law. Ezra 3:10-13 says they rejoiced in their return to the Lord and rebuilding of a temple, which was a complete change from the Pre-Exilic worldview. By their…