Epistles

years scholars have tried to interpret and reconcile the controversial convictions presented by The Epistle of James. In particular, James 2:14-26 received the most attention as it has often been identified as a contradiction to the doctrine of Pauline Epistles that “justification is achieved by faith alone” . Martin Luther even scrutinized the canonicity of James and denounced it as “right strawy epistle”. Upon reading the verses, one can be easily deluded into thinking that James believe an…

The Romans Road The Romans Road is a method of sharing the gospel through bible verses from the book of Romans which logically lay out God’s plan of salvation for mankind. This simple yet effective evangelistic method clearly explains why mankind needs salvation, how God provides salvation through his son Jesus Christ, how unbelievers receive salvation, and what outcomes salvation has on the life of a believer. (Christy, 2012) Evangelists following this method begin with stating that all men…

The book of Philippians is written while Paul is in prison. While there, he writes his thanks and appreciation to the four Philippians: Timothy, Epaphroditus, Euodia, and Syntyche. He gives thanks to each of them and expresses his deep appreciation of their love for Christ and their sharings of support to Paul’s ministry. In Philippians 2:21 Paul speaks upon the ones who only look out for the interest of themselves, but not of Christ first. While on the other hand Timothy as Paul states, “But…

Student Name Fayez Alfayez Intertextual Connection between Johannine Epistle and the Gospel of John Introduction The gospel of john and the Johannie espistle are both have written by the same author, even though there are different opinion about who wrote gospel of john and the Johannie espistle there are various facts and many evidence shows and approve they both have written by same author which is John and we do not forget that John is the disciple of Jesus. With that assumption, it is…

The majority of this year was spent on improving our writing for the first three targets, though the fourth is still relevant and important in crafting polished essay. As the year progressed, I began to see myself more easily spotting errors of syntax, spelling, and other cosmetic details. To demonstrate my ability to revise based on the feedback of others and my own opinions, I chose to revisit my Insider/Outsider Biography, paper 1.1. Coming back to this piece after several months, I…

Melissa Moody 10/07/2015 Introduction//Thesis The book of Romans teaches Christian the aspect of our life. To start off the book of Romans Paul has written a letter to a church in Rome. This letter is where Paul introduced the very foundation of Christian belief which is still with each Christian today. The book of Romans is very important because of the greatest aspects. These aspects help build our foundation into the Christian faith we have today. Without the book of Roman we would have never…

The first message I ever gave was here a couple of years ago, and it was also on Romans. And in that message, I explained what it meant when certain words are used to begin a passage. Romans 8:28 begins with the word “AND”. When a passage starts with the word “AND”, what it means is, that it’s a connection. It’s a connection between what he has been saying and what he's about to say. However, “AND” was not used here. Neither was the word “BUT”, which is intended to be used as a contrast to…

Romans one through eight covers a lot of ground related to what a Christian worldview is. Paul wrote this book for the Romans because their society was in a lot of corruption. The Romans began to take on false gods and worshipped them engaging in unnatural sexual immoralities. These passages that Paul wrote covers the basics of what salvation is, who can receive salvation, and what God expects from those who are saved. Although Paul wrote Romans as a message to the Romans it is a message for…

Haacker breaks down the chapter using a variety of subheadings to discuss the major theological concerns. Though there are many subheadings, the reader is not lost due to the organization of the four major headings: 1) Romans as a proclamation of peace with God and on earth. Haacker explores how peace is a distinctive idea in Romans. Haacker points out that Romans contains four proclamations of peace: peace with God, peace between Jews and Gentiles, between Christians and the surrounding world,…

The book of 1 Corinthians is one that many Christians are familiar with because of the love chapter. Many Christians are also very familiar with this book because the Paul wrote this book. The text of 1 Corinthians provides us with evidence that Paul wrote this book. 1 Corinthians 1:1(English Standard Version) says, “Paul, called by the will of God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus, and our brother Sosthenes,” Textual evidence shows that Paul was the author, but also scholars also agree…