Epistle

Euthanasia is known as the painless killing of a human being suffering from an incurable disease or an irreversible coma. Human life possesses an intrinsic dignity and value because God creates it in his own image for the distinctive destiny of sharing God’s own life (BBC, 2014). In relation to bioethics, ethical frameworks are guidelines and rationales an individual uses to guide his or her decisions and actions. This is relevant to the topic as euthanasia is based on personal decisions and…

internecine struggles, and epistolary practices of the primitive Church outside of the New Testament. ΕΠΙΣΤΟΛΑΙ ΙΓΝΑΤΙΟΥ: The Letters of Ignatius is a unique tool that assists those with an intermediate level of Koine Greek in reading these valuable epistles. Using the text of Kirsopp Lake’s 1919 edition of The Apostolic Fathers, ΕΠΙΣΤΟΛΑΙ ΙΓΝΑΤΙΟΥ provides definitions and parsing information in footnotes in the bottom margins of the page for every word in the text that occurs 30 times or less…

Disciples The twelve disciples walked with Jesus and were with Him throughout His ministry. They experienced firsthand everything that Jesus did throughout His time here on earth. A few of the disciples wrote books of the Bible in the New Testament. The twelve disciples were Peter, his brother Andrew, James, John, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, Jude, also called Thaddeus, and Judas Iscariot. Andrew, Peter’s brother, was a fisherman from…

Chapter Three In chapter three of ,After you Believe, N.T Wrights explains the human calling to reign over creation and ultimately achieve God’s vocation and intended image for humankind. In the creation story of Genesis human are given reign and dominion over creation. What does the word ‘reign’ mean in this context. It is unlikely that God gave us ‘reign’ to destroy his beautiful world. Nature is a project that as humans we need to protect and maintain. As humans, we need to enable God’s…

Introduction In How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth, Gordon D. Fee and Douglas Stuart gives the reader a concise guideline for interpreting scripture. Their recommendations for how to interpret the scriptures are based on the type of genre of the book. The authors give specific examples describing the incorrect way of interpreting scriptures and applying hermeneutics. They then demonstrate the correct way of interpreting and apply scripture. The purpose of this paper is to discuss…

During the approximate time of 400BC, Socrates stated that "I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing." Although many may observe and say that this cannot be true, that the wisest man alive must know something -- we get some insight into how the human psychie stores and utilizes memories. When a memory is created we take it in through our personal perception of the world, and take note of what happened. As soon as we apply our personal perception, it is no…

The study of religious missions and the methods and their purposes are being revealed in the Christianity of the early church. As I was studying this subject the words of Isaiah 53:7-8 began to resonate in my heart. In this we see Jesus’ sacrifice and the martyrdom of the disciples of Jesus Christ that reveals the missiology of Christianity in the early church. Opened not His mouth speaks of the Servant’s willingness to die for sinners; it also marks His dignity and authority as a lamb to the…

a prolonged, nightmarish epoch of civil wars” (M. Grant, 2015). Horace was inspired by Virgil, who in turn was impressed with Horace’s poetic ability. Under his influence, he wrote many of his most famous works including Satires, Epodes, Odes and Epistles. Most of his works celebrate common events and everyday life and “…some of his modern admirers see him as the poet of the lighter side of life; others see him as the poet of Rome and Augustus” (M. Grant, 2015). The way Horace wrote about the…

flood and ending up resting on the mountains of Ararat, located in present-day Turkey. Noah was also can be noted in the 1st Chronicles, Isaiah, Ezekiel, the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, the book of Hebrews, and last but not least in the 1st and 2nd Epistles of Peter.(3) His role as the last man standing with God left on earth. He was considered to be the most “blameless” man at the time with a world saturated with sin. You can find accounts of Noah continually reading, "Noah did everything just…

John writes the book of Revelation to testify “to everything he saw” of the testimony given to him by Jesus Christ. He recorded his vision from Christ “for the benefit of…Christians throughout history”. He wrote to the seven churches in the provinces of Asia to urge his readers to “be ready at all times for the Last Judgment and the establishment of God’s kingdom.” While Revelation is not, as some assume, a secret code to unlock the future, it is a great resource to Christians so that they…