Epistles

2.0 Passage: Ephesians 2:1-10 Our life before Christ and after Christ, we were dead in sin but made alive in Christ. 2.1. We were dead in our transgressions and sin, this was the state we were in before receiving Christ (1-3) In verse 1 Paul writes ‘As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins’. “The death to which Paul referred was not physical death, as is clear from Paul’s description. Death is a metaphor for the existence of people who are alienated from God. Life is in God…

St. Paul The title of St. Paul as the “Apostle to the Gentiles” was earned due to the tremendous work that he achieved as an evangelizer. St. Paul throughout his travels in Greece, Macedonia, Malta, Italy and the Mediterranean gathered many followers for the Christian faith and organized the creation of countless churches. The population of the areas that St. Paul would go on missions to were gentile cities where they practiced false gods. St. Paul overcame many challenges in order to evangelize…

In Ephesians 2:1-10 Paul describes the ethical conduct of a person who is in Christ and a person who is not in Christ. The evildoer is dead in transgressions and sins, therefore whatever he does is repudiated to God even those benevolent acts that a sinful person can perform. Ladd points out that in Ephesians chapter two there is ethical significance union with Christ because the chapter describes this union in terms of new life in Christ linked with his resurrection and ascension, on the other…

He is the quintessential writer of the New Testament with fourteen letters and epistles being ascribed to him. With the exception of Jesus, Paul was the most influential preacher of the Gospel. Yet, as Hendricks contends, Paul’s shifted Jesus’ ministry from collective consciousness to personal piety and deliverance from sin (Hendricks…

Understanding the inspiration of Scripture is vital to understanding how the Bible that we have came into being. There are several different theories as to how the Bible was inspired, such as the dynamic and verbal theories. According to Millard J. Erickson in his book, “Introducing Christian Doctrine”, the dynamic theory “emphasizes the combination of divine and human elements in the process of inspiration and of the writing of the Bible”, while the verbal theory “insists that the Holy Spirit’s…

2: Jesus cried out "My God! My God! Why Have You Forsaken Me!?" While Hanging On The Cross. Matthew 27 records this. Highly improbable Matthew would make up this saying and put it into Jesus' mouth since it makes it look like Jesus doesn't trust the Father, and it makes it look like Jesus forgot His mission. Why did Jesus say this? He quoted the first verse of Psalm 22 verbatim. This is a messianic Psalm according to most biblical scholars. When you cross-examine (pun intended) Psalm 22 with…

These are very underrated verse Paul’s epistles but have heavy importance in Christianity. Though the epistles faith is very prominent when it comes to being about the covenant “who through faith are shielded by God’s power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time” (1 Peter 1:5 NIV). The…

After studying a passage of Scripture, it’s important that we connect what we learned to the rest of Scripture. Which is when the correlation study comes in. This is an important step when you are studying a specific passage of the bible. There are 66 books in the Bible and over 30 different authors all writing about the same scenario . Because of this there is bound to be some overlap in content. Sometimes there are entire sections that are repeated in different places, and other times there…

adulthood, Alexander was well versed in many scholarly fields: “the practice of the art of medicine. For when any of his friends were sick, he would often prescribe them their course of diet, and medicines proper to their disease, as we may find in his epistles” (Lives). Alexander was similarly interested in knowledge and learning. Like Caesar, he was well-educated, which was an important trait in Roman society and surely interested Plutarch’s Roman…

I braced myself every moment since you said those words for the hurt that would come. It was inevitable, and the dread resided in a distant place in my mind, preparing my body to implode the moment our love parted. I almost felt it the night of graduation. Our merry band of friends attended your commencement ceremony, and we cheered for you with all the oxygen in our lungs. I was so proud to see you succeed. We all took a group photo with my Polaroid camera, which I still have. It is a happy…