Idolatry

Thesis: Because the Kingdom of God is meant for all of His people, the church is apostolic by being sent out to create this Kingdom through reaching out to marginalized groups. Therefore, the church has the duty to focus on encountering God with these groups. Scripture calls the church to go fourth and create justice, good, and peace for all people. Simply, this is the Kingdom of God. In fact, the word of the Lord states, “For even the Son of Man did not come to serve, but to serve, and to give…

The practically non-existent archival documents from the Byzantine era have forced historians to look to other sources as a means of understanding the significance of this great empire. Scholars have therefore turned to the abundance of surviving hagiographical documents such as lives of saints, passions of martyrs, collections of miracles, liturgical poetry, and translations of relics from Late Antiquity to the fall of the Eastern Empire. These accounts have been preserved in thousands of…

In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, William Shakespeare puts a heavy emphasis on the idea of love. In the very first act of the play, one of his characters, Lysander, speaks the line, “The course of true love never did run smooth.” As the play carries on, it becomes clear that Lysander is correct. The love in this story is shown to be true, but there are obstacles that the couples must overcome to sustain their love. It is shown multiple times that love is not always what is best for someone and can…

The sociology of sport Part I hero noun 1. a man of distinguished courage or ability, admired for his brave deeds and noble qualities. Sports culture in a modern sense has developed significantly from the era of Aztec ball games and Roman blood sports to an almost unhealthy extent. Our contemporary view of sporting persons is somewhat misconstrued, allowing the term “hero” to be thrown around in conversation quite loosely. Adultery, substance abuse and irresponsible behaviour occur everywhere…

I. Introduction The book of Jonah can be used to postulate a number of different theological suppositions. For those that want to press their position on the sovereignty of God, then it easy to use Jonah for the way God manipulates the wind, the sea, the whale, the sun, and even the worms! For those that want to point out the debilitating effects of disobedience and its consequential effects toward depression, then Jonah is a good case study. This man begs God to take his life three times in…

The Catholic Church has always preserved and elevated role and great respect for the Virgin Mary; this is unique amount the Christian in its far-reaching extent and is often the basis for arguments of idolatry made against the Church by other denominations. Within the Church itself true veneration of the Virgin Mary is difficult to discern from “worship” of her figure, and Mariology has been developed extensively in the Church for centuries to clearly…

The Making of the Knights Templar “Like going on pilgrimage, to which they were often likened, crusading was an act of Christian love and piety that compensated for and paid the penalties earned by sin” (Richard Abels, par. 1). During the Medieval Time Period, the Christians would take pilgrimage to the Holy City of Jerusalem until it became increasingly dangerous as the Muslim Wars of Expansion threated the Holy City of Jerusalem. This sparked the Crusades: a series of Holy Wars where the…

Obviously their relationship to Christ is growing weak because he is writing this letter. He identifies what is earthly in them, which is, “Sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry,” (ESV Colossians 3: 5). Paul also identifies our unholy emotions and the ways we release our emotions. In Colossians 3:8 Paul asks us to, “Put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth.”(ESV Colossians 3:8) Paul…

Thomas Paine believed that government was a negative thing in many ways in this paper the reasons why Thomas Paine believes this will be stated. He thought that absolute monarch was an evil sin that went against the holy scripture of god and was a horrible thing all around. Next he thought that the government system was corrupt and took away from peoples unalliable and natural rights. Finally, he believed that what was most important of all is that people should govern themselves. These three…

price. So glorify God in your body” (English Standard Version, 1 Cor. 6:19-20). The Bible also tells us if we are immoral we will not inherit the kingdom of God. “Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God”…