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An ever present word in the Holy Bible, shalom is a very mysterious word with a powerful meaning. Commonly defined as an everlasting peace in the world, this word is forgotten in a place filled with war, hunger, and disease. Moreover, this word is arguably an antonym to “normalcy” in today’s…

Top 10 Craziest Facts About the Origins of Christianity (That They Don’t Teach You In Sunday School) Christianity is currently the world’s largest religion, with around 2.4 billion followers worldwide (LINK 1). Those of us who were raised Christian, or in predominantly Christian countries like America (where 83% of the population identifies as Christian and almost all of the U.S. Presidents have been Christian), are pretty well versed in the basics of Christianity’s history and tenets: Egypt,…

Suffering and its connection with Evil in our world. Thesis: how has humanities understanding of suffering changed over the centuries? I will be exploring how our understandings of evil affects was our knowledge of suffering. My sources will include apostolic letters, academic journals from various university professors. I will also be including biblical references as a point of reference between these two topics. Lastly, I will offer my own insights on this important topic. When someone goes…

Biographical Essay Assignment 10233 최동민 Cho Yonggi 3 John 1:2 says, "Dear friend, I pray that you may enjoy good health and that all may go well with you, even as your soul is getting along well" (New International Version, 3 John. 1.2). Pastor Cho Yonggi upbuilt this biblical passage into his own Full Gospel theology and successed as a senior pastor of a megachurch, Yoido Full Gospel Church which boasts 830,000 members, a number it says is rising by 3,000 a month. However, his…

what they have previously been told by God and eat from the forbidden tree anyway. This teaches us that humans were made originally to be very good and free from sin, but the world is not perfect and we live in a world of sin so even the first two people on the planet sin. Adam and Eve are given freedom by God to choose how they act. They have a choice to have God guide them on how to act towards telos or they can trust themselves more than God and take matters into their own hands and sin. Sin…

who will face destruction, are the people who practice idolatry, meaningless rituals, slavery, and exploitation. God warns the wicked, through prophets, to turn from their dreadful ways or they will face Gods wrath. Isaiah 13:9 lays this out pretty well, “See, the day of the Lord is coming—a cruel day, with wrath and fierce anger—to make the land desolate and destroy the sinners within it.” God will judge all nations, including Israel (Amos 1:3-2:16). For the people who remained pure, through…

THE LAW OF LIBERTY Introduction The Law of Liberty is initially mentioned in James 1:25, “But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continue therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.” At this point, James is referring to the Gospel, even though it is termed a law, it is not, firmly speaking; a law is authorized and obligated. But, here it is an affirmation of uprightness and deliverance by Jesus Christ, a proposal…

years…after the Rapture… …The Devil wanted the Bible, and any semblance of it to be removed from the court house steps…Next it will be your money…”In God we trust” that was to be removed. Making way for electronic money only and the “mark of the beast.” Satan’s antichrist will require everyone have the mark in order to purchase, anything. Warning! Warning! Danger Beware! Don’t take “The Mark of the Beast” which is 666. RFID chip? One day people would be required to take that mark, either in…

Thessa G. Smith 103 Stratford Road-Greenwood, SC 29649 864.377.0400 tgsmith@umcsc.org Thessa G. Smith 103 Stratford Road – Greenwood, SC 29649 Cell phone: 864.377.0400 tgsmith@umcsc.org Disciplinary Questions – Part I Describe your personal experience of God and the understanding of God you derive from biblical, theological and historical sources. I have a personal relationship with God the Father through the redemptive power of Jesus Christ and the keeping power of…

Lereiya Edmonson Research Paper Equality of Women in Modern Israeli The Zionist movement was not travelling along the traditional Jewish way. On the contrary it created the basis for the religious society when it changed the role of women in society. Because traditionally, Israeli women were groups of religiously observant who believe that they should be able to pray at the Kotel and read the Torah scroll as well as wear the Tallit. Israeli women are defined as Jewish and Palestinian Arab.…