Fundamentalist Christianity

Emperor Constantine, unlike Alexius was not born a Christian, he became a Christian during his life. Eusebius’s description of Constantine’s moment of conversion is a very memorable part of the book: “Knowing well that he would need more powerful aid than an army can supply, he [Contantine] sought a God to aid him…This God he began to invoke in prayer, beseeching and imploring him to show who he was, and to stretch out his right hand to assist him in his plans…About the time of the Midday sun,…

Church Comparison For this spiritual growth project, I attended three fairly different Churches. For the first, I attended CCF, which is a non-denominational evangelical Church. The second was First Presbyterian Church of Siloam Springs, a Presbyterian Church USA member. Finally, I went to St. Mary’s Catholic Church, which is under the Diocese of Little Rock, which in turn reports to Rome. Growing up, I have been a part of several Churches, so I really did not have any expectations of what any…

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Equality Towards the end of the most recent summer I made the realization that my religious beliefs did not match up with that of my parents. It took me weeks to build up the courage to tell my parents that I did not believe in their religion, it felt how I’d assume it feels to come out of the closet, fear that your parents will think differently about you, fear that they will disown you or even just pretend the incident never happened, after it occurred I…

in the book, “He [Wayne] had made it clear to them {his congregation in Michigan] that he did not consider it his job to convert the children to Christianity, and, as he once told me, ‘If God wants someone to be Christian it will happen. That’s not my department’” (Gutradt 118). This decision that Wayne made not to convert the children to Christianity had a significant impact on the community. It resulted in his congregation in Michigan pulling out all their funding for the Wat Opot community.…

Throughout the book of Acts there are a few different instances of growth in the church that come after the Ascension of Jesus. The one that anyone who has the slightest bit of knowledge on the book of Acts would know is The Pentecost. The day of the Pentecost there were 120 believers all in one spot, praying to God to show them whether Barsabbas or Matthias should be the new Apostle in place of Judas, who had been struck dead by God. Acts 2:1-4, everyone in the room was filled with the Holy…

Analyzation of the Biblical Text in Luke 14:25-35 The writing in Luke 14:25-35 is an adaptation of the costs of being a disciple of Christ. The setting for this pericope is crucial because it gives people insight on what Jesus was doing at that time. Furthermore, the pericope opens with “large crowds were traveling with him.”(Luke 14:25, NRSV) meaning that the crowd found something in Jesus because they were traveling with him toward Jerusalem. Moreover, these ‘large crowds’ had left their homes…

Introduction Something that was really important in Church history was the spreading of the word of God. Many people have dropped everything and went out and told people about who God is and how to live in a lifestyle that is devoted to God. Jesus has told us, in Matthew 28, to go out and share what we have learned from him to all the nations. There are so many people who have taken this commandment to heart and as a result have impacted Church history and also have made an impact on how…

There seems to be a view which states that it does not matter what an individual does, or what faith they belong to, in the end, it is not possible for a loving God to send people to Hell. This view is called Universalism, and while it sounds very lovely, and peace-loving-harmony, it is nevertheless unbiblical. It is worrisome if this trend continues. This is not to say that a pastor needs to preach hell and damnation every week, of course not. However a pastor should never stand before a…

Jesus have anything to do with the formation of the Christian church? And if he did, how did he shape its special character?” (Shelley 4). During the age of Jesus and the Apostles, the anti-institutional view of Christianity was so widespread that many questioned Jesus’ partaking in Christianity. In my opinion, I believe this was the most important event in church history between 6 B.C. and 1517. During the age of Jesus and the Apostles, Palestine was not a very pleasant place to live. In…

Paul obtained inspiration from Jesus’ teachings as he wrote to the church of Corinth, but as early Christianity was beginning, the Greek philosophy of Stoicism was popular and thriving. In The Manual of Epictetus, Arrian described the beliefs of Stoicism. The beliefs of the Stoics that are similar to the philosophy of St. Paul are of behavior and actions…